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Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2018 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. Templates included at the back of the book reveal answers and aid the creation of astounding illusions. The science behind each element will be simply explained in an engaging way, to encourage the reader to find out more each time. Throughout the book will be chances for the reader to get hands-on with the illusions, with step-by-step experiments, or tips on how to draw your own "moving" optic art on paper or on the computer.
A fascinating collection of 270 visual conundrums to test your perception and boost your intelligence.
This book features more than 150 fascinating optical illusions, from the earliest, experimental imagery to the present.
Fun-filled, math-based puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.
3D Illusions is a highly original book that offers deceptive images, visual tricks and optical puzzles. But there is an exciting extra dimension it is completely interactive and gets readers directly involved in trying to solve the illusions themselves with a fully tactile experience. So it?s actually a book that contains unique three-dimensional images!The book contains more than 50 puzzling images, each requiring you to find the mind-boggling solutions using the accompanying card press-out pieces. The clever teasers call for you to arrange or fold the specified pieces in the correct way to fit shapes inside another shape, create new shapes, pictures with an extra or missing object, patterns and logos. One of our favourites involves the optical effect tops black and white discs which, when spun, project a colour illusion!
Contains a collection of over 200 unusual illusions including hidden objects, color and brightness effects, illusory moving patterns, and image paradoxes.
A beautiful, fascinating and educational book of optical illusions and eye tricks, created by experts, Eye Tricks takes the reader on a journey around the brain, teaching why we see the way we do, and even how we think!Eye Tricks is a fantastic eye-catching book filled with 150 superb, colorful optical illusion illustrations, all designed and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the Italian puzzle and illusion creator. This book contains another huge batch of your favorite eye-boggling images, including previously unpublished optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known examples. Each image carries an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain. There is also a glossary of illusion terms and a gallery of classic illusion types.
Do you like solving puzzles? Are you intrigued by optical illusions? Have you ever wondered what a mixture of those two would be like? This book features puzzle/illusion hybrids. It also includes original puzzles.
Containing many new optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known optical illusions, this title carries an explanation of how each image works - the story behind it, when it was discovered or who invented it first, and details of why it fools the human brain.