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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
IF the paper has a grain which goes one way and one had custom decks printed this way and that then what one would have perhaps is an opportunity.
We think plastic also has a grain by the way.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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TH10111 Regular user 155 Posts |
I guess the grain would need to be in the same direction on every layer of the card, to give the biggest difference.
If they are conscious of it, I would assume that the playing card manufacturers turn the grain for each layer, so as to improve the rigidity and strength of the cards. |
luvisi Special user 601 Posts |
"Ed Schuman's Sightless Sight" from page 37 of Tarbell 7 (1972) comes to mind.
It's a trick with business cards, but I imagine the same principle could be used with playing cards. By printing/cutting on a diagonal, one could have the outer right corner be softer on some cards and stiffer on others, and this difference could be felt while dealing. Since the card must be bent a little to tell, it'd be very difficult to deal a second after "reading" a card. I can't imagine any way to do the equivalent of a punch deal. Andru
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Linen and Linen Air perhaps.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
MarcoLostSomething Regular user 144 Posts |
I think that every kind of factory-processed paper has this anisotropy, because of the molecules streched along one preferential way which should be the same for every card.
For sure there are some more ideas that could use that |
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