### 13.5. Illusion

#### 13.5.1. Overview

Figure 17.301. Illusion

Original image

Filter applied

With this filter, your image (active layer or selection) looks like a kaleidoscope. This filter duplicates your image in many copies, more or less dimmed and split, and puts them around the center of the image.

#### 13.5.2. Activating the Filter

This filter is found in the main menu under Filters → Map → Illusion….

#### 13.5.3. Options

Figure 17.302. “Illusion” filter options

Presets, “Input Type”, Clipping, Blending Options, Preview, Merge filter, Split view

  | Note
  These options are described in Section 2, “Common Features”.

Division

  That's the number of copies you want to apply to image. This value varies from -32 to 64. Negative values invert kaleidoscope rotation.

Illusion type

  You have two arrangement types for copies in image:

  Figure 17.303. From left to right: original image, Type 1, Type 2, with Divisions=4

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