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- | This fanning method can be exploited in various ways. It's earliest use was probably to create an illusion that the faces of the cards in the deck were blank. A blank-faced card was placed on the face of the deck before it was reverse fanned. See Frederick E. Poole Jr.'s " | + | This fanning method can be exploited in various ways. It's earliest use was probably to create an illusion that the faces of the cards in the deck were blank. A blank-faced card was placed on the face of the deck before it was reverse fanned. See Walter Gibson's " |
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===== Hiding Face-up Cards ===== | ===== Hiding Face-up Cards ===== | ||
- | The precursor to this idea was to hide a face-up card in a traditional fan, and simply shielding the exposed index from view. Harry Hanaoka contributed this idea to // | + | The precursor to this idea was to hide a face-up card in a traditional fan, simply shielding the exposed index from view. Harry Hanaoka contributed this idea to // |
- | Using a reverse fan, however, naturally swaps the side of the cards being displayed. This causes the indices of any face-up cards to be hidden beneath the card above it — no additional shielding required. In Ed Marlo' | + | Using a reverse fan, however, naturally swaps the side of the cards being displayed. This causes the indices of any face-up cards to be hidden beneath the card above it. Judson Brown exploited this feature to create an [[cards: |
- | Marlo later expanded on this principle in Jon Racherbaumer' | + | In Ed Marlo' |
David Regal used distributed, | David Regal used distributed, | ||
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