| Chapter 8 Development Path |
| The purpose of this chapter is to take a moment and look at the versions of Matrix that |
| were developed as the effect matured. |
| The Sympathetic Coin Trick from Bobo’s Modern Coin Magic was the effect I |
| began with during the development of Matrix. In this trick four half-dollars were |
| placed in a square pattern on a handkerchief. Then two small squares of cardboard |
| were used to cover two of the coins. The coins were not covered immediately. First |
| two coins were covered, then two others and two others. In the process of showing the |
| audience that two pieces of cardboard could cover the coins in various ways, a coin |
| was picked up when one coin was covered by two pieces of cardboard at the same |
| time. Then the pieces of cardboard were apparently placed on two coins. A visible |
| coin was picked up with the right hand. While the left raised the edge of the |
| handkerchief, the right hand apparently moved the coin under the handkerchief. In |
| reality the left fingers clipped the coin under the handkerchief as the right passed by. |
| The pretend coin was moved to the piece of cardboard that covered the two coins. It |
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