* A pancake spin is a difficulty variation on a sit spin in which the free leg is canted towards the body and upper body is bent over it, forming the illusion of the skater's body as a pancake.

* A cannonball spin is a difficulty variation similar to the pancake in which the free skate touches the thigh of the skating leg and arms are held down and touching the skating leg, giving the illusion of a cannonball.

In superconductors the illusion of perfect diamagnetism arises from persistent screening currents which flow to oppose the applied field ( the Meissner effect ); not solely the orbital spin.

Ash then notices that the Book of the Dead has fallen near the fireplace and is starting to burn, as are Cheryl and Scotty, giving the illusion that disposal of the book into the fire will destroy the demons.

Norretranders has called the delay " The User Illusion " implying that we only have the illusion of conscious control, most actions being controlled automatically by non-conscious parts of the brain with the conscious mind relegated to the role of spectator.

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

As says Guru Tegh Bahadur, Nanak IX, " He has himself spread out His / Her Own “ maya ” ( worldly illusion ) which He oversees ; many different forms He assumes in many colours, yet He stays independent of all " ( GG, 537 ).

Magic ( illusion ) | Stage magician and scientific skeptic | skeptic James Randi has stated that Magic ( illusion ) | magic tricks can simulate or duplicate some supposedly psychic phenomena.

Magritte's constant play with reality and illusion has been attributed to the early death of his mother.

Time-sharing designs switch tasks more often than strictly needed, but give smoother multitasking, giving the illusion that a process or user has sole use of a machine.

Paul Sammon, author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, has suggested in interviews that Deckard may be a Nexus-7, a next-generation replicant who possesses no superhuman strength or intelligence, but brain implants that complete the human illusion.

In the field of legal academia, Peter Swire has written about the trade-off between the notion that " security through obscurity is an illusion " and the military notion that " loose lips sink ships " as well as how competition affects the incentives to disclose.

This view has been questioned, aside from the general criticisms of the concept of evil as an illusion discussed earlier, since the presumably correct understanding by Christian Science members, including the founder, has not prevented illness and death.

A number of ecological economists claim that industrial civilization has already " overshot " the carrying capacity of the Earth, and " smart growth " is mostly an illusion.

The last knowledge that an individual has as an individual is the knowledge that all this is mere illusion.

The impression from the valley floor that this is a round dome which has lost its northwest half is an illusion.

Despite Balducci's disclaimer, the illusion has since been known as the " Balducci Levitation.

Lateral inhibition has also been used to explain the Hermann grid illusion, but this has been disproved.

Such explanations confirm the illusion that anger has a discrete external cause.

The Gautama Buddha has taught that there are three basic kleshas at the root of samsara ( bondage, illusion ) and the vicious cycle of rebirth.

has given this somewhat austere drama an absorbing intimacy and a warming illusion of nearness that it did not have on the stage.

Maya or Māyā ( Sanskrit ), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as " illusion ", centered on the fact that we do not yet experience the environment directly but rather through some projection of itMaya sustains the self by blessing self judgement of self creation.

Sarah performs a binding spell to prevent Nancy from doing harm, but this does not work and the coven turns on Sarah, invading her dreams, threatening her and finally using their powers of illusion to make Sarah believe that her father has been killed in an accident.

Thus an illusion of understanding is generated, even though the processing involved has been merely superficial.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

Similar to the Penrose stairs optical illusion ( as in M. C. Escher's lithograph Ascending and Descending ) or a barber's pole, the basic concept is shown in figure 1.

This binary reproduction relies on a basic optical illusion — that these tiny halftone dots are blended into smooth tones by the human eye.

The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.

Only the basic plot elements of the show are scripted, with the dialogue improvised, enhancing the illusion of reality ( a practice referred to as retroscripting ).

On whether a curveball is caused by an illusion, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean has been quoted in a number of variations on this basic premise: " Stand behind a tree 60 feet away, and I'll whomp you with an optical illusion!

Echoing basic Vedantic philosophy, Cohen says that this is the realization of the transcendental aspect of God, and it often goes hand-in-hand with the realization that the world is an illusion.

The game engine ingeniously gives the player the illusion of playing in a completely solid 3D environment with polygon-based graphics, even on very basic platforms.

Notably, the evidence of the senses is not seen as properly basic because, Descartes argued, all our sensory experience could be an illusion.

Its basic structure of simple doo-wop chord changes and block harmonies over a walking bass line " creates an illusion of sincerity through its sheer attack.

In recent years, following exposure of the basic illusion by the Masked Magician, a number of magicians have begun performing variations on the basic illusion.

This position is sometimes referred to as eliminative materialism: the view that consciousness is a property that can be reduced to a strictly mechanical description, and that our experience of consciousness is, as Daniel Dennett describes it, a " user illusion ".

If they believe in determinism, they will therefore believe free will to be an illusion, a position known as Hard Determinism.

In recent years, Paul and Patricia Churchland have advocated a radically contrasting position ( at least, in regards to certain hypotheses ); eliminativist materialism holds that some mental phenomena simply do not exist at all, and that talk of those mental phenomena reflects a totally spurious " folk psychology " and Introspection illusion.

To " attack a straw man " is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition ( the " straw man "), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

His answer was that the question itself is illegitimate, because it is asked from a position anchored in maya ( illusion ).

Shape, position, colour, and 3D contrast ( vision ) | contrast converge to produce the illusion of black dots at the intersections.

Buddhism asserts that external reality is an illusion, and sometimes this position is misunderstood as Solipsism.

The Poggendorff illusion is a geometrical-optical illusion that involves the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has been interrupted by the contour of an intervening structure ( here a rectangle ).

The open cloudy sky in Quake maps is in fact not open, but is covered over and enclosed with large brushes, and textured with a special skybox texture which is programmed to use sphere mapping and thus always looks the same from any viewing position, giving the illusion of a distant sky.

Meanhwhile, Yoshinaka's armies moved into position, and as the sun set, the Taira turned to find behind them a Minamoto detachment, holding far more flags than a single detachment should merit, giving the illusion of greater numbers.

The term illusory motion, also known as motion illusion, is an optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the cognitive effects of interacting color contrasts and shape position.