Optical Illusions To Trick The Eye

Budding magicians will love exploring the art of magic with Optical Illusions to Trick the Eye. They will read how famous illusionists fooled their audiences. Then learn how to trick an audience of their own! Kids will follow simple instructions and photos to make squares twist, straight lines wiggle, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

"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!" --

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.

Describes various kinds of optical illusions, experiments concerning them, and their use in art and design.

Cool distortions, a perplexing parallel pattern, afterimages, 3-D foolery, a shady comparison, imaginary interference, flip flopping faces, and other optical illusions will "trick" you into seeing what isn't there! There's one thing you can be sure of, when it comes to optical illusions: appearances are always deceiving! The author lives in North Falmouth, CA. 80 pages (all in color), 10 x 10.

Filled with 150 colorful optical illusions, all sourced, designed, and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the puzzle and illusion creator. Each image carries an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain.

Presents optical illusions and explains why the eyes perceive what isn't actually so.

A beautiful, fascinating and educational book of optical illusions and eye tricks, created by experts, Eye Tricks takes the reader on a journey around the brain, teaching why we see the way we do, and even how we think!Eye Tricks is a fantastic eye-catching book filled with 150 superb, colorful optical illusion illustrations, all designed and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the Italian puzzle and illusion creator. This book contains another huge batch of your favorite eye-boggling images, including 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 also a glossary of illusion terms and a gallery of classic illusion types.