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1. Fill in the blank: Tufte cites “one fundamental principle of Gestalt psychology and magical misdirection,” which is expressed in the following sentence:
“larger Choose One magicians parallels confections motions hide or blur smaller Choose One motions magicians dimensions multiples .”
2. Tufte discussed Agatha Christie's mystery novels and the surgeon general's warning in cigarette advertisements as examples of what principle? bad design attention control parallelism Okito magic
3. Tufte says that the literature of magic is “haunted” by the issue of combining words and images. According to Tufte, what do readers “spend too much time” doing when words and images work badly together in visual explanations of magic? coordinating the steps in the words with steps in the images reading the words silently, seeing the images passively sleeping cheating the magical effect thinking multivariately about words and images
4. In his discussion of the Automation Chess Player developed in 1769, Tufte criticizes the “clumsy call outs," which are the letter or number codes used as labels. Why does Tufte find these clumsy? text is too small for readers with visual impairments hand lettering is crude codes are not integrated into or close to the illustration destroys the mystery of the magic trick
5. Tufte calls “retention of vision” a fundamental technique of illusion making. What does this phrase mean, according to the chapter? long-term memory what all good designers have the essencial element of a great magician's style the mind's brief holding of an image after its gone
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