Amazing Visual Illusions

Throughout the book, each image is accompanied by an explanation of how it works, the story behind it – when it was discovered or who invented it first – and the details of exactly why it fools the human brain. The book includes many new and previously unpublished illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known illusions. It also includes works by well-known illusion artists such as Bridget Riley, Salvador Dalí, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Oscar Reutersvärd, René Magritte, István Orosz and Rob Gonsalves. There are chapters on the following subjects: optical illusions from the real world (mirage, refraction, afterimage), ambiguous figures, impossible figures, color adaptation, moving illusions and paradoxical illusions.

"Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with almost three hundred different artworks. You will be amazed as some images flash and scintillate before your eyes, while others disappear right in front of you. Size and shape can lose their meaning, you'll see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads! You won't believe your eyes!" --

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.

Presents examples of optical illusions and discusses how they happen by looking at how the brain and the eyes work together.

"Fantastic Optical Illusions is filled with visual illusions, color tricks, perplexing puzzles, quizzes, and more"--Provided by publisher.

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 This book, volume 2 in the series, contains another huge batch of previously unpublished optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known examples.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.

With close to 300 different illusions, this is one of the most comprehensive and amazing collections of optical illusions ever assembled.

A collection of over 100 optical illusion puzzles, with explanations of the reasons for their effects.

Slip into another dimension and experience the brain-twisting extremes of optical illusions Are your eyes and brain ready for a challenge? Then hold on tight because these picture puzzles will blow your mind Through a clever use of color, angles, and ambiguity, they trick your perception and confound your sense of reality. Watch as ladybugs seem to walk in circles on the page and a nest of vipers uncoils. Look out a window and gaze at the view--or is that a painting of a view from a window? How is it possible? Detailed explanations reveal the science behind the visual effects, letting you know what you're seeing and why you see it that way. Amazing Optical Illusions presents a range of deceptive images, impossible objects, and incredible worlds, all in a cutting-edge style that is instantly engaging.