365 Optical Illusions


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An incredible 365 optical illusions.




Puzzling Optical Illusions


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A rich assortment of visual mind-bogglers, including "impossible objects" — constructions that look fine on paper but can't possibly exist in reality — as well as pulsating patterns, vanishing spots, pictures that suddenly change into other configurations as you're looking at them, and much more. 60 black-and-white illustrations.




Dalí's Optical Illusions


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Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions.




Easy-to-Do Magic Tricks for Children


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Text and diagrams explain easy-to-do magic tricks which utilize common objects such as coins, rubber bands, and string.




Amazing Optical Illusions


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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.




Illusions


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Twin sons, separated at birth, are brought together again by accident and suspicious surroundings in the movieland Los Angeles.




Easy Magic Tricks


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Using only common household items — handkerchiefs, string, playing cards, coins, thimbles — the 127 magic acts in this fully illustrated guide will help young novices amaze family and friends.




How to Understand, Enjoy, and Draw Optical Illusions


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In this compact and colorful book, Robert Ausbourne (b. 1947) presents a crystal-clear dissection of a variety of confounding optical illusions. His text and vivid illustrations explain how illusions work and how you can make your own, using just basic drawing and computer skills. As Ausbourne says, "If you are human, you already have the basic skills necessary to study illusions." The thirty-seven projects presented in How to Understand, Enjoy, and Draw Optical Illusions will fascinate young and old, everyone who enjoys untangling how the mind works and the eye sees. Art and science teachers, graphic designers, and artists alike will find it indispensable.




The Art of the Illusion


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While even the simplest of illusions please, this stunning volume showcases over 200 of the finest images from around the world. Artists include Rafael Olbinski, Rob Gonsalves, Octavio Ocampo, David MacDonald, Gene Levine and M.C Escher. From the most classic optical illusions to complex graphic and painterly designs.




Optical Illusions


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This intriguing collection contains more than 275 optical illusions that appear to change before your eyes. Al Seckel carefully selected both well-known images, such as Shepard's tabletop, Wade's spiral, Ames room and Rubin's face/vase, and many lesser-known, but no less effective, illusions. Every type of optical illusion is here, along with notes about the science of each visual perception and how the illusions work. Among the baffling images and shapes are: Figure/ground illusions, in which one shape switches into another then back again Ambiguous figures Impossible objects Trompe l'oeil Stereo illusions. With illusions rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and a huge variety of themes and effects, Optical Illusions dazzles both the mind and the eye.