Patent ID: 8511712

Claim:
A blend of pigment flakes coated upon a substrate comprising: a first plurality of magnetically aligned pigment flakes which exhibit a color shift from a first color to a second color with a first change in viewing angle; and, a second plurality of non-magnetically alignable pigment flakes which exhibit a color shift from the first color to a third color or vice versa with a second different change in viewing angle and wherein the first and second plurality of flakes have a different orientation, wherein the first, second and third colors are three different colors, and wherein the first plurality and second plurality of flakes exhibit the first color when viewing the substrate at normal incidence, wherein the flakes are coated upon the substrate in a binder forming a mixture of flakes and wherein the magnetically alignable flakes are aligned in a substantially same orientation that is different from the orientation of the non-magnetically alignable flakes, wherein the first plurality of flakes are aligned in a different manner upon the substrate than the second plurality of flakes so that tilting the substrate about a first axis yields an observable color shift from first color to the second color or vice versa and such that tilting the substrate about a second different axis yields a color shift from the first color to the third color or vice versa, wherein the first axis and the second axis are orthogonal axes.