Topsy-Turvy Optical Illusions


Book Description

Presenting the largest, most incredible collection of topsy-turvy optical illusions ever created, with a stunning mix of classics and previously unpublished designs! Topsy-turvys all contain two different images in one picture--you just have to look carefully to see them both. "Vanishing Rabbit," for example, is pure magic: one moment the bunny's in the magician's hat, and the next, it's gone, leaving just the conjurer. Are those ladies in the "Bearded Girls" illusion? Turn the page upside down and check again--now they've turned into bearded men. "Courtship and Matrimony," a nineteenth-century satirical card, gives a before and after view of marriage. The variety of art styles ranges from cartoon to classical, and every illustration has a fun surprise.




Palazzo Inverso


Book Description

Mauk, mischievous apprentice to the master architect, must not draw on the plans for the new Palazzo. But by turning the plans a bit each day, he finds a way to alter them, turning the master’s creation onto its head! Discover what mystery and excitement a small change of perspective has brought to the Palazzo. In this M.C. Escher-inspired masterpiece, D.B. Johnson pushes the picture book form to new extremes. With its continuous narrative and illustrations that can viewed upside down, readers can turn the book over on page thirty two and read all the way back to page one. Enter the Palazzo Inverso...and see if you can find your way out.




Supervisions


Book Description

These amazing artistic optical illusions have real depth - that's because they're in 3D! Some have to be viewed through a pair of red & blue paper glasses, which come with the book: put them on & watch decorative cubes, towers, & other complex geometric drawings spring to life, gaining volume & space.




Topsys & Turvys


Book Description

Quirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure. Peter Newell utilizes a unique cartoon art form that the reader perceives as an optical illusion. Each illustration is supported by a caption that turns each page into loads of fun. Each page will delight the reader with a new and uniquely illustrated story that tells its tale right-side up and upside down. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created. Topsys & Turvys Book 2 also available from Tuttle Publishing.




How To Draw Optical Illusions


Book Description

How To Draw Optical Illusions is a comprehensive drawing handbook covering all aspects of drawing mind-boggling optical illusions - such as the famous Penrose stairs popularised by M.C. Escher – that you can use to amaze your friends. It includes step-by-step instructions for mastering many optical illusions.




Optical Illusion Play Pack


Book Description

Gives kids the opportunity to play with the images. This pack also includes punch-out cards that enhance every illusion, plus a vinyl pouch for safely storing the cards afterwards. It helps children figure out if the two differently shaped tables in a picture are actually the same size, by laying a checkered tablecloth over them both.




The Painted Circus


Book Description

A collection of 22 astonishing stunts with visual puzzles that is entertainment for the whole family.




Optical Illusion Experiments


Book Description

Kids can be both scientists and magicians--all at once! With just a little practice, and these 50 super experiments, they’ll amaze people with fool-the-eye illusions that also illustrate basic principles of visual perception. They’re amazingly cool, too, featuring tricks of motion; distortions of length and size; tilts, twists, and topsy-turvies that give a new slant on things; and fantastic flat-screen phantoms that play with illusions of depth.




The World of Visual Illusions


Book Description

Visual illusions is a fascinating collection of optical illusions, many of which have never before been published in this form. From classic illustrations of impossible figures to drawings of everyday objects which turn out to be extraordinary to scintillating graphic patterns which pulsate and change before your very eyes, the variety of different effects is almost endless!




The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions


Book Description

Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.