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Make you scratch your head magic show

I spent too much time trying to analyze the methods used in order to achieve the above magic trickery. Does anyone care to take a stab?


  • Patrick

    I would LOVE to know how they do this!
    Props to whoever posts the answer.
    …Serious Props!!!

  • http://www.xonikz.com Jon

    Magic?

  • Roy

    she starts the show wearing all the clothes, the first set of clothes she takes off and leaves inside the prop… these clothes are probably lightly velcro’ed together to get maintain the illusion.

    Then the dresses get longer, these ones are neatly folded halfway up the body, and are released while in the prop.

  • annon

    They have clothing folded and it unwraps, they drop used layers with the display cloths, you can see them slopoly, purposely hide the dropped clothing.

  • Mike

    she could do a pretty quick strip tease

  • Michael

    thats amazing

  • http://www.alifelessordinary.com/ Thomas J. Brown

    That’s really good, although it’s a fairly common trick.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick-change

  • http://www.mugamo.com rawillkill

    Quick Change utilizes an almost magical array of technology and ingenuity to dazzle their audiences. While it is true hook and loop fasteners and snaps still play a minor role, I want to tell you about techniques that have recently become dominant. Although I am not at liberty to disclose all their secrets, I can let you in on a few of the basics. David and Dania have real talent, and that’s why not just anyone can do this–with or without the technology.

    Quick Change is actually a fairly large team effort. The Quick Change team is composed of several computer engineers, programmers, tailors, technicians, a chemist, a physicist, and several others. All these people are needed because of the technology and science that enables Quick Change.

    The dresses Dania wears are made from special fabric coated with a thin, flexible layer of OLED film. The OLED coated fabric can be instantly changed to any color by electronic signals. OLED technology was chosen because it does not require a backlight and is very energy efficient. Wearing OLED enabled fabric is like wearing a computer screen. A miniature, onboard computer controls the OLED fabric and stores programs for each “virtual dress,� as we call them. The virtual dresses are changed remotely by a technician via radio frequency.

    Various techniques are employed to change the shape and style of the dress. The use of electronic muscles is one of the most interesting techniques. Electronic muscles were originally developed for robotics applications. These devices behave similarly to human muscles when stimulated with electronic signals and are used for mechanical actuation. These electronic muscles allow the onboard computer to alter the shape of the dresses. This includes revealing additional fabric (such as ruffles) tucked away inside the dress at precisely the right time. The muscles also provide a means of detaching sections of fabric from the dress.

    When Quick Change started using the OLED fabric, there were a few problems that have since been worked out. Poor electrical interconnections between the detachable fabric sections were a major source of embarrassing glitches early on. The detachable sections would occasionally go blank or only partially work during shows. A special, electrically conductive adhesive now used between interconnects solved this issue.

    An interesting problem occurred at a show attended by President Bush. Upon taking stage, Dania’s dress refused to respond to the technician’s commands, and the act was not able to continue. It was later determined the Secret Service, as part of their normal security procedure, had unwittingly foiled the show by jamming the frequency used to control the dress.

    Many more techniques and subtleties than what I have discussed are used to pull off a seamless show. I hope, however, I have satisfactorily answered your question.

  • http://non jimmy

    hahhahahahahahah raw! dude thats so funny

  • king

    or it can just magic by other supernatural forces being used…

    o be honest i believed that this was the cause of using some supernatural beings help them perform the tricks…once i saw that video tutorials are sold to show u how to do really amazing stuff not tricks…it appeared that they are in reality are only tricks..but the speed and the slyness of the movement done by the magician is so amazing i did not know it was physicaly possible for humans to move in such a way

    but just tricks…

  • Roy
  • Chris

    Thanks Roy! rawillkill your a DB

  • Paul

    I was one lucky person to see this live BEFORE they went on to shows like this. It was at a University of Minnesota wrestling match. It still is the most amazing magic act/performance I have ever seen.

  • http://www.mugamo.com rawillkill

    Oh, I forgot to poat the link? Sh*t. Sorry!

    Yeah, my bad. :(

  • http://www.mugamo.com rawillkill

    post*

  • Chris

    @rawillkill, ok your not a Douche Bag now

  • Jeffy

    And I’m guessing she just had a black wig on at the beginning that she took off behind the gold tube?

  • crave10

    i saw one where the girl still had the dress hanging from her when she came out… funny stuff.

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