Optical Illusions
Published on 3. January 2019
96 pages
978-0-7112-4400-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
File size
17,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-4400-9 (9780711244009)
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Gianni Sarcone | Marie Jo Waeber
Optical Illusions
Book
10/2017
Words & Pictures
€34.87
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Persons
Gianni A. Sarcone is an expert in brain training and is particularly involved in cognitive sciences (teaching methodology, creativity and communication). He has written numerous books on topics ranging from optical illusions to visual and critical thinking. The author lives and works in Genoa, Italy.Marie-Jo Waeber is an expert in brain training and is particularly involved in cognitive sciences (teaching methodology, creativity and communication). She has written numerous books on topics ranging from optical illusions to visual and critical thinking. She lives and works in Genoa, Italy.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Is Seeing Believing?
- Light
- Scintillating Grids
- Playing with Contrast
- An Extraordinary Sofa
- Puzzling Colors
- Color Adaptation
- Restoring Color
- Neon Colors Effect
- Stained Glass Illusion
- Making Colors
- Rubber Ducks
- Magic Heart
- Playing with Assimilation
- Mapmaker Illusion
- Lines and Space
- Different Lines
- Poggendorff's Illusions, Lining Up
- Magic Straws
- Roman Temple
- Tilted Letters
- Amazing Jastrow Playing Cards
- Bulging Shapes
- Wider or Taller?
- Puzzling Hat Sizes, Hidden Right Angles
- Incredible Circles, Sarcone's Ellipses
- Bigger or Smaller?
- Hybrid Illusion
- Leaning Towers
- Disrupting Patterns
- Impossible Structures
- Impossible Shapes
- Magic Glass
- Spot the Difference
- Bilateral Animals
- Motion
- Visual Flows
- Running Water
- Expanding Gothic Heart
- Swirling Whirl
- Hovering Hashtags
- Sparkling Squares
- Pulsing Star
- The Brain
- Pac-Man Illusion
- Contours and 3-D Shapes
- Colors Affect Contours
- After-effects
- Blurred Face
- The Mischievous Leprechaun
- Cheshire Cat
- Disappearing Spots
- Broken Plate?
- Stereograms
- 3-D Wonders
- Experiments
- Sarcone's L-Shaped Puzzle
- Remove the Glass from the Tray
- Optics in a Glass: Reversing Fish
- A Loo Roll 'Squircle'
- Playing with Perspective
- Make an Impossible Triangle
- Visual and Mental Blocks
- How to Walk Through Walls
- Circle to Square
- Make Your Own Hologram Projector
- Hypnotic Disc
- A Confusing Sign
- Dark Spot, Bright Spot
- Footstep Illusion
- How to "Levitate"
- Photographing Levitation
- Making Magic Dice
- Moving Pictures
- Jastrow Magic Experiment
- The Unpredictable Structure
- Hole in the Hand Illusion
- Geometric Illusion
- Impossible Triangle
- Polypodous Elephants
- Drawing Impossible Stairs
- Templates
- Answers
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- I
- L
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
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