Mighty Optical Illusions

A collection of some of the craziest, mind-bending, and entertaining images on the web. Women with four arms, children who walk on water, pigeons the size of ten-story buildings—though we know these things aren’t possible in the real world, a quick glimpse at the right photograph may temporary convince you otherwise. Steven Estep, one of the brains behind the popular visual illusion website, MOIllusions.com, understands how these eye tricks work better than most. In Mighty Optical Illusions, Estep presents more than two hundred photographs, drawings, sculptures, and paintings that may make you scratch your head, squint your eyes, and doubt yourself. These images are known as optical illusions—items that deceive the eye by appearing to be other than they really are. The illusions in this collection include 3-D chalk drawings, billboards, body paintings, color adaptations, murals, sculptures, stereograms, sketches, and designs by some of the most progressive and well-known illusionists in the industry, including: Andreas Aronsson Frankynata Tedjosantoso Jennifer Townley Josh Stacy Leon Keer Mark Grenier Mark Talbot Richard Contreras Tabi Ferguson Terence Rosoman And more! Optical illusions—whether they are scary, dizzying, confusing, or tricky—can provide hours of fun and entertainment for the whole family.

A collection of hundreds of thought-provoking optical illusions.

Hungry minds will be stimulated by clever and thought-provoking optical illusions contained in this compact size book to fit easily in the hands of young readers eager to be stumped. Illustrations.

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

Fool your brain with mind-boggling illusions, then get hands-on and make your own to wow your friends! Learn all about the science behind these wacky phenomena, from moving liquid on a page, to shapes that disappear in front of your eyes with this clever guide. 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. Covering a range of optical topics, from shapes and movement, to light and reflection, this cool manual contains templates at the back which reveal answers and help you to create your own astounding illusions.

Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic designers, teachers, and artists who want to explore illusions that are distorted in size or create the perception of movement. Amateur illusionists are invited to draw curves that diverge and converge, diamonds that vibrate and flicker, hypnotic spirals, ghosts, and ambiguous figures, and many other visual tricks.

These mind-bending optical illusions will make you wonder if you smoked more than you thought. Are your eyes playing tricks on you, or did you unknowingly (or knowingly) smoke too much weed? Stoners’ Optical Illusions contains more than 150 colorful and mind-bending illustrations—such as moving lines, wriggling shapes, and hidden 3-D images—done in a weedy theme to make you feel tripped out every time you turn the page. Each optical illusion includes an explanation of how and why it makes your head spin, breaking down the science into basic concepts that every stoner can grasp.

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!