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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6593300" data-attributes="member: 6776887">So, it seems to me that the interpretation is simpler if the illusion just tricks the viewers mind, similar to an optical illusion. Several of the optical illusions in this gallery at CNN give a little bit of an example of what I mean, specifically the bent lines, and moving spirals.<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/living/gallery/optical-illusions/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/living/gallery/optical-illusions/index.html</a>I am not saying the minor illusion makes straight lines look bent, but in a similar way it, and other illusion spells present something in their image which tricks the mind into seeing what is not there. So like a real optical illusion, it takes some investigation to determine that the image is not there. In this way, the minor illusion and other illusion spells don't alter anything about the environment, just how the viewers perceive it.So back to our box for a possible explanation into "what really happens". The caster puts a minor illusion of a box around the torch.  The actual illusion itself is a transparent image, but as viewers see it, something about the magic in it causes the object to appear solid to the viewer in a similar way to how our brains fill in data when looking at an optical illusion. While the box appears solid to the viewer of the illusion, the lines of an optical illusion appear bent to the viewer. The "real" image of the illusion is always translucent, just as the optical illusion's lines were always straight.This allows the illusion to not alter the environment, actually exist in one state while viewers can perceive it as solid or translucent, and be viewed from any distance away. It also goes back to what I would consider to be the original intent of the spell: it is "just an illusion."</blockquote>

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