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| Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years. | Wesley James has claimed the Fusion plot as his, but he didn't publish his "Forgery" until //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14532/Stop+Fooling+Us+Lecture+Notes/46|Stop Fooling Us!]]//, 1989, p. 39. James has two cards fuse, one signed by the spectator, the other by the performer. Even if calculating by James's claims of creating his trick in 1965 (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12674/Enchantments|Enchantments]]//, 2004, p. 5), Houghton's fusion effect, although lacking signatures, predates it by nine years. | ||
| - | The open use of gimmicked cards was later introduced to enhance the effect. Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman, and David Arthur used a double-backed card in their "Fusion" routine from //CardWorks//, 1981, p. 47. Strictly speaking this wasn’t a fusion routine, regardless of the title. The cards weren’t fused but merely “stuck together” (which, while similar, are conceptually very different). The double backer was then separated back into two cards, meaning the merger had no permanency. That same year, Paul Harris and Looy Simonoff published "The Beast With Two Backs" in //Close-Up Fantasies Finalé//, 1981, p. 113, which climaxed with two cards permanently fused together in the form of a red/blue double backer. Steve Beam developed the idea of ending with a double facer, publishing it as "Making Faces" in //The Trapdoor//, No. 7, Jan. 1985, p. 115 (in the text, Beam claims to have been doing the routine since his college days). | + | The open use of gimmicked cards was later introduced to enhance the effect. Gene Maze, Richard Kaufman, and David Arthur used a double-backed card in their "Fusion" routine from //CardWorks//, 1981, p. 47. Strictly speaking, this wasn’t a fusion routine, regardless of the title. The cards weren’t fused but merely “stuck together” (which, while similar, is conceptually different). The double-backer was then split back into two cards, giving the merger no permanency. That same year, Paul Harris and Looy Simonoff published "The Beast with Two Backs" in //Close-Up Fantasies Finalé//, 1981, p. 113, which ended with two cards permanently fused together in the form of a red/blue double-backer. Steve Beam developed the idea of ending with a double-facer, publishing it as "Making Faces" in //The Trapdoor//, No. 7, Jan. 1985, p. 115. In his text, Beam claims to have been doing the routine since his college days. |
| - | Prior to the fusion effect being applied to cards, it was developed for [[coin:fusion|coins and billiard balls]]. | + | Prior to the fusion effect being applied to cards, it was suggested for [[coin:fusion|coins and billiard balls]]. |
| * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/899|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]] | * [[http://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/899|Category in Denis Behr's "Conjuring Archive"]] | ||
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