"SOARING MIRAGES" MOSAIC Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: entertaining industry of toys, decorative art, optical industry, industry of articles improving living conditions and advertisement, mainly optical toys, desk entertaining games, logical games, games-puzzles inclusive, devices for composing ornaments and devices for demonstration of optical effects providing for creation of visually observed colorful, as "soaring" in the air, dynamically changing stereoscopic pictures, applicable for manufacture, for instance, of various toys of the mosaic, mosaic-constructional and advertising types, logical games, games-puzzles inclusive of the mosaic type favouring the development of artistic taste and color sensation, logical and volumetric thinking, spatial imagination, elements of foresight, combination abilities of the player, and training of his eye memory, as well as for manufacture of various decorative art articles, articles improving living conditions, for composing ornaments, etc. SUBSTANCE: mosaic has a base with playing components in the form of a lens raster screen with a reflecting coating fastened to it and made in the form of a metal high-reflecting layer or layer of powder with a high-reflecting surface dispersed in binder and applied on the surface of the lens raster relief of each raster screen for creation of picture of the lens components of the respective raster screen above its face surface; the raster screens are made in the form of a color mosaic and make up a playing field with optical illusion; the raster screens may be arranged in such a way that their external contour forms a specified picture. EFFECT: enhanced entertaining quality. 42 cl, 7 dwg