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Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don't trust anything you see at first glance, because it's impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hat--two fancy...
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"People are fascinated by optical illusions. There is something intrinsically satisfying about static pictures that appear to move, change color, or fool us into seeing things that "aren't really there." This comprehensive survey of optical illusions includes an astonishing range of images from ancient times to the present. Covering illusions of depth, inversions, vibration effects, ambiguous figures, camouflage, anamorphic art, tessellations, and...
4) Hidden images: games of perception, anamorphic art, illusion : from the Renaissance to the present
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Among the most baffling and entertaining illusions are those created by anamorphic distortion. By sophisticated application of the laws of perspective, pictures can be stretched and distorted beyond recognition, remaining 'unreadable' until they are viewed from a special angle or with the aid of a suitably shaped reflecting surface. In this book we can play the game of perspective distortion in the company of artists such as Leonardo, Holbein, Caravaggio,...
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Chocolate or vanilla? Push or pull? We make different decisions every day. Our genetic makeup is more or less the same, so how come we act differently from one another? What triggers our actions and reactions, our thoughts and emotions? How exactly does the mind work? Every day we encounter different objects, sights, colors, shapes, and images. Sometimes, things are not what they appear to be. Before you think it's magic-think again. Is it just your...
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Why is the sky dark at night? The answer to this ancient and celebrated riddle, says Edward Harrison, seems relatively simple: the sun has set and is now shining on the other side of the earth. But suppose we were space travelers and far from any star. Out in the depths of space the heavens would be dark, even darker than the sky seen from the earth on cloudless and moonless nights. For more than four centuries, astronomers and other investigators...
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"The understanding of perception is central to our knowledge of the mind. Yet paradoxically, this understanding was born of centuries of fascination with errors of human perception. Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives elegantly retraces this scientific journey, not only in terms of its trials and errors but in its complex relationships with painting and medicine, philosophy and physics." "In this accessible volume, Nicholas Wade surveys...
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If ever there was a defining moment in a career, for renowned body-painting artist Joanne Gair, it was painting "that suit" on Demi Moore. Gair allows us to see the human body as a canvas to be transformed - and she has worked with some of the world's most celebrated models, actors, and photographers to do just that. From a youthful fascination with the facial skin adornment of the indigenous Måaori people in her native New Zealand, to creating painted...
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Astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author Douglas R. Hofstadter make this 320-page, breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer...
15) Mindbending
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In this episode of Dara O'Briain's Science Club, the team explores the human brain, with segments on optical illusions, human-computer interactions, mindreading via brain scans, and collective behavior. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Dara O'Briain's Science Club combines lively studio discussions featuring some of the world's most eminent scientists, with exciting experiments, studio demonstrations and film reports of cutting-edge science stories....
18) Don't blink!
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"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
Win the staring contest and you don't have to go to bed! An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
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