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Fool your brain with mind-boggling illusions, then get hands-on and make your own to wow your friends! Learn all about the science behind these wacky phenomena, from moving liquid on a page, to shapes that disappear in front of your eyes with this clever guide. The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each trick works. Covering a range of optical topics, from shapes and movement, to light and reflection, this cool manual contains templates at the back which reveal answers and help you to create your own astounding illusions.
An interactive activity and coloring book featuring 50-plus "impossible" optical illusions to color along with, and activities that show kids how to create their own optical illusions.
Filled with more than 150 amazing, colorful illusions, this collection features images of previously unpublished illusions, moving patterns and color perception, and more. Each image comes with an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain.
Eye Bogglers is a crazy picturegallery of mesmerising opticalillusions and visual puzzles. Itcontains many new adaptations oflesser-known optical illusionsand plenty of favourite classics.A simple commentary introducescurious minds to this fascinatingworld where art and sciencecollide, and explains why theillusions work as they do.
Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic designers, teachers, and artists who want to explore illusions that are distorted in size or create the perception of movement. Amateur illusionists are invited to draw curves that diverge and converge, diamonds that vibrate and flicker, hypnotic spirals, ghosts, and ambiguous figures, and many other visual tricks.
Throughout the book, each image is accompanied by an explanation of how it works, the story behind it – when it was discovered or who invented it first – and the details of exactly why it fools the human brain. The book includes many new and previously unpublished illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known illusions. It also includes works by well-known illusion artists such as Bridget Riley, Salvador Dalí, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Oscar Reutersvärd, René Magritte, István Orosz and Rob Gonsalves. There are chapters on the following subjects: optical illusions from the real world (mirage, refraction, afterimage), ambiguous figures, impossible figures, color adaptation, moving illusions and paradoxical illusions.
Ultimate Eye Twisters is a bumper collection of crazy and mesmerizing optical illusions and visual puzzles. It contains hours of eye-boggling, mind-twisting fun for kids who love the challenges of visual trickery.
Contains more than 150 colorful optical illusions just waiting to blur your vision and put your brain in a spin! This book is great for adults and children alike, and the authors explain why it is that your brain and eyes can be fooled so easily.
Make Your Own 3D Illusions offers deceptive images, visual tricks, and optical puzzles with an exciting extra dimension: the book is completely interactive! More than 50 three-dimensional images designed by Archimedes' Laboratory require readers to manipulate press-out cards to fit shapes inside shapes, create new shapes, and more. The all-important answers--if you need them--are also included, along with explanations of how the illusions fool the brain. Sure to provide endless hours of fun … and frustration!
"In this book we have included classic and new optical illusions that will delight children and grown-ups as well as inquisitive minds in search of solid, accessible material on this amazing subject"--Page 5.