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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.
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.
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.
Presents various optical illusions for the reader to perform which illustrate how visual perception can be distorted.
Fantastic Optical Illusions is filled with another 150 superb, colourful optical illusion illustrations, all designed and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the Italian puzzle and illusion creator. This book, volume 2 in the series, contains another huge batch of previously unpublished optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known examples.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 a glossary of illusion terms and a gallery of 'classic' illusion types.
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.
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.
"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.
This book features more than 150 fascinating optical illusions, from the earliest, experimental imagery to the present.
A fascinating collection of 270 visual conundrums to test your perception and boost your intelligence.