In “Out of This Universe”, published in Genii, Vol. 19 No. 9, Aug. 1955, p. 410, Larry Becker used the idea of an alternating color setup to produce selected cards in a magically segregated pack, by subtly transposing the positions of the chosen cards in the setup during their selection. The same principle, but with an alternating one-way back design as opposed to a red/black setup was exploited earlier by Theodore Annemann in “The Alternate Detection” in The Encycopedia of Card Tricks, 1936, p. 148.

Juan Tamariz built this idea into a miracle with his “Neither Blind Nor Silly,” published as “Blown Away” in Apocalypse, Vol. 10 No. 7, July 1987, p. 1369; and then in Sonata, 1991, p. 211.