stackyFACTSThose cheap, plastic novelty cups that change pictures when you tilt them are actually a marvel of optical interlacing. The bumpy surface is made of dozens of tiny magnifying lenses, each angled precisely to show you only one slice of a spliced image depending on where your face is located.
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