The Blomberg Book
Posted: July 19th, 2015, 5:36 pm
Blomberg Laboratories was favourably reviewed in June by John Guastaferro.
I would like to add a couple of comments.
“For the first time in magic’s history, this book has not been illustrated by a human, but by a piece of software developed by its subject. Every single illustration you see in these pages has been automatically generated.” Andi Gladwin
What do readers think of this development?
The illustrations are so good that I even wondered if the authors involved were pulling my leg.
The introductory credits clearly state: “Illustrated by Tomas Blomberg’s computer.”
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I liked ‘The Four Heads Bar Scam’ near the end of the Blomberg book.
You bet someone you can toss a normal ungimmicked coin four times in succession, and it will come up heads every time. The coin is not weighted or double-headed. The other person can even do the tossing. Sounds impossibly fair.
This swindle reminds me of the Russian lateral thinking puzzle: a woman gives birth to two babies (from the same father) within ten minutes of each other, and yet these babies are not twins.
You can puzzle over this for hours until the solution hits you.
(And to exclude the possibility of superfecundation, I should warn biologists and medical students that the woman does not have a second uterus and the second baby is not born premature.)
I would like to add a couple of comments.
“For the first time in magic’s history, this book has not been illustrated by a human, but by a piece of software developed by its subject. Every single illustration you see in these pages has been automatically generated.” Andi Gladwin
What do readers think of this development?
The illustrations are so good that I even wondered if the authors involved were pulling my leg.
The introductory credits clearly state: “Illustrated by Tomas Blomberg’s computer.”
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I liked ‘The Four Heads Bar Scam’ near the end of the Blomberg book.
You bet someone you can toss a normal ungimmicked coin four times in succession, and it will come up heads every time. The coin is not weighted or double-headed. The other person can even do the tossing. Sounds impossibly fair.
This swindle reminds me of the Russian lateral thinking puzzle: a woman gives birth to two babies (from the same father) within ten minutes of each other, and yet these babies are not twins.
You can puzzle over this for hours until the solution hits you.
(And to exclude the possibility of superfecundation, I should warn biologists and medical students that the woman does not have a second uterus and the second baby is not born premature.)