I’ve seen shape-shifter visual prints before. Look directly at the image and you see one visual. Tilt the print slightly, and there is either a movement, or another visual altogether. I took my new Disney Lenticular Puzzle, and made a quick
Google search. It offered me some newfound knowledge. Lenticular printing is a process where a combination of two or more images, viewed with a specialised lens material, creates the illusion of animation or a three-dimension image.
The 12x9 square inches puzzle has 24 pieces. The visual is a familiar ensemble of Disney characters we’ve grown up loving. Donald Duck strutting his stuff. Pluto all wide eyed and chasing a butterfly. Goofy striding, and then suddenly leaping up, arms akimbo. There’s Mickey Mouse (not one of my favourites), and a thug-like fellow, in a hot air balloon, whose name I can’t recall.
All the basic rules of putting together a puzzle apply here. Get the edges sorted. Get the individual body parts fitted together. The Disney Lenticular Puzzle turned out to be an extraordinary experience. Look closely at a piece, and just when you think you’ve figured where it goes, the image changes. The puzzle came together in reasonably quick time. And it’s a pity; a still photograph does no justice to the visual feast before my eyes.
So here I am, with a solved puzzle that has two very different perspectives, depending on how I look at it. A lenticular truism of life!
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