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Optical Illusions

Autor Al Seckel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2009
Seeing is not always believing. Optical Illusions is an intriguing collection of baffling images and shapes that change before your eyes: hidden figures, incredible designs and dazzling graphic patterns. The book includes such well-known optical illusions as Shepard's Tabletop, Wade's Spiral, the Floating Finger illusion, Ames Room, and Rubin's Face/Vase illusion. There are more than 275 illusions in all, with explanations of each image and notes about the science of visual perception. Every type of optical illusion is here, among them: - Figure/ground illusions, in which one shape switches into another and back again - Ambiguous figures - Impossible objects - Trompe l'oeil - Stereo illusions. With illusions rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and its huge variety of themes and effects, Optical Illusions dazzles both the mind and the eye.02Seeing is not always believing.
Optical Illusions is an intriguing collection of baffling images and shapes that change before your eyes: hidden figures, incredible designs and dazzling graphic patterns. The book includes such well-known optical illusions as Shepard's Tabletop, Wade's Spiral, the Floating Finger illusion, Ames Room, and Rubin's Face/Vase illusion. There are more than 275 illusions in all, with explanations of each image and notes about the science of visual perception.
Every type of optical illusion is here, among them:
  • Figure/ground illusions, in which one shape switches into another and back again
  • Ambiguous figures
  • Impossible objects
  • Trompe l'oeil
  • Stereo illusions.
With illusions rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and its huge variety of themes and effects, Optical Illusions dazzles both the mind and the eye.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554071517
ISBN-10: 1554071518
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 275 full colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 231 x 255 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.48 kg
Ediția:Reprint edition
Editura: Firefly Books
Locul publicării:Canada

Notă biografică

Al Seckel is a leading authority on visual and other types of sensory illusions. He lectures extensively at the world's most prestigious universities and is the author of several best-selling and award-winning books on this subject. He also writes an illusion column in National Geographic Kids magazine and is active in designing and building interactive galleries on illusions, perception, puzzles and mazes. He teaches at the University of California and lives in Los Angeles.Al Seckel is a leading authority on visual and other types of sensory illusions. He lectures extensively at the world's most prestigious universities and is the author of several best-selling and award-winning books on this subject. He also writes an illusion column in National Geographic Kids magazine and is active in designing and building interactive galleries on illusions, perception, puzzles and mazes. He teaches at the University of California and lives in Los Angeles.

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'Highly entertaining' Jodi DeLong, Halifax Chronicle Herald.

Descriere

275 optical illusions are rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and individually explained. The visual illusions illustrated are from both historic and modern sources and the book includes notes about the science of visual perception.