The way Balanchine keeps them constantly marching, running and leaping creates the illusion that the stage is filled with hordes of people.
Doctor Hoffman's illusion inducing machines create the same effect as today's newspapers, magazines, websites, and television broadcasts.
A secondary illusion creates false perspective since the stairs are wider at the bottom than at the top.
Maya is usually quoted as "illusion", centered on the fact that we do not experience the environment itself but rather a projection of it, created by us.
The effect was a definite inducement to acrophobia, the illusion of standing unprotected in space created something akin to 'agoraphobia.
His ability is to use illusions to create multiple copies of himself.
"That illusion, in turn, created a mental model of what computing could be."
Because all film creates the illusion of a documentary reality.
The plain and the mountains behind seem to be sinking like Atlantis: an illusion created by the flowing stars.
He also has the ability to create and manipulate illusions, shoot blasts of hellfire, create portals to other dimensions.