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Author
Pub. Date
c2017
Description
"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. Templates included at the back of the book reveal answers and aid the creation of astounding illusions. The science behind each element will be simply explained in an engaging way, to encourage the reader to find out...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The image is clear. Or is it? Optical illusions are tricks that our eyes and brain play on us to make us see things differently--like an image that shows two different things, depending on how you look at it. Explore ambiguous images and learn the science behind what makes them work. Then, take a turn making your own optical illusion. Get ready to be eye-mazed!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Paint Alchemy combines exploratory techniques with a process-oriented philosophy that is guided by a focus on creativity and design. Paint Alchemy is a new series which explores how to build a painting practice. Grounded in a process-oriented philosophy, novices and experienced painters alike will learn how to create freely by combining a foundation in solid techniques and design principles with an open approach to creativity that stays focused on...
89) Xtreme illusions
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Seeing is believing. But what if you simply can't believe your eyes? Dive into another dimension and experience the eye-boggling and brain-twisting extremes of these awesome optical illusions. This mind-bending collection of visual puzzles will amaze your friends, mystify your family and even blow your own mind!
93) White on black
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
White illustrations against a black background depict such objects as a horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.
94) Arithmetic
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
A poem about numbers and their characteristics. Features anamorphic, or distorted, drawings which can be restored to normal by viewing from a particular angle or by viewing the image's reflection in the provided Mylar cone.
95) Re-zoom
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a boat which becomes the image on a magazine, which is held in a hand, which belongs to a boy, and so on.
96) El otro lado
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
98) Shape and form
Author
Pub. Date
[1974]
Description
Text and photographs explore the art elements of shape and form through observing the qualities of design in and beauty of various shapes found in our environment and studying the effects of light on these shapes.
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