optical illusions

Presents artworks from throughout history that contain optical illustions and describes the techniques artists used to create them, discussing such topics as trompe-l'oeil, perspective, coded messages, and hidden pictures.

Presents various optical illusions for the reader to perform which illustrate how visual perception can be distorted.

A collection of approximately thirty optical illusions, including photographs, illustrations, and computer images, each with an explanation.

Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.

Provides simple instructions for creating a variety of visual tricks.

A discussion of optical illusions, with explanations of why we see them and suggestions for creating illusions of our own.

Presents optical illusions that captivate the imagination by fooling the eye with tricks of perception.

Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with close to three hundred different illusions, many of which have never before been published. You will be amazed as images flash and scintillate before your eyes, other images disappear right in front of you, size and shape lose their meaning, you see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads.

Presents over ninety diagrams showing how to draw various kinds of optical illusions using the triad.

Examines the art of Salvador Dal?, focusing on his use of pictorial techniques, photographs, and holograms in his exploration of visual perception and optical illusion.