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The Maths & Computing Magic Show

The Maths & Computing Magic Show. Peter McOwan Queen Mary, University of London. Tonight. Maths, Computing & Astonishment & classics of magic! The magician’s code! ‘secret’ + performance Principles to create your own.

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The Maths & Computing Magic Show

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  1. The Maths & Computing Magic Show Peter McOwan Queen Mary, University of London

  2. Tonight.... Maths, Computing & • Astonishment & classics of magic! • The magician’s code! • ‘secret’ + performance • Principles to create your own

  3. Torn and restored card trickMind control...you will all think of the same card!

  4. More Shuffling…

  5. Your card has been torn….

  6. ????

  7. Here is how...The princess card trick Trick dates back to 1905 and is credited to American magician Henry Hardin

  8. What does it have to do with your MP3 player?

  9. Masker Masked Sounds Mp3 coding for music

  10. Brain Experiments!

  11. Eyes & seek appwww.qappsonline.com

  12. The Piano Trick(aka the invisable palm)...

  13. The Piano Trick • Algorithm and user interface • Secret 7+1 =8 • Simple algorithm hidden in Misdirection!

  14. The importance of understanding humans…

  15. The perfect shuffle Brett Morris – PhD computer memory patent

  16. Body language experiment...

  17. R0 R2 R1 B0 B2 B1 Algebra- Lets call them...

  18. R0+R1+R2(26 reds) B0+B1+B2(26 blks) R0 R2 R1 B0 B2 B1 R0 = R1+B1 B0 = R2+B2 (R1+B1)+R1+R2=(R2+B2)+B1+B2 2R1+B1+R2=R2+B1+2B2 R1=B2

  19. Classic of magic… Cutting a person in 0.5 First Public sawing-P T Selbit 1921 (Stage name of Percy Thomas Tibbles )Finsbury Park

  20. 13 People

  21. 12 People

  22. How is it done?

  23. Watch the heights as 12- 13!

  24. Research Questions…. • How big a change can we make for it to still be ‘invisible’ to the audience? • Does it work in 2D? Apply Artificial Intelligence to solve the problem….

  25. For books, links, videos and the ISS www.cs4fn.org http://teachinglondoncomputing.org/resources/

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