visual perception

A discussion of visual thinking, looking at diagrams as tools for blurring the boundaries between words and pictures and formulas and figures.

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.

Discusses research on the nature of the creative process, in how humans view processes and objects, how humans use intuition, imagination, and insight in everyday life, and how these techniques can be used in problem-solving.

Four animal friends notice that the size of distant objects seems to change depending on the location and movement of the viewer.

The Math Monsters explain how things can look different depending on one's perspective and explore the shapes of buildings in Monster Town.

Photographic puzzles follow an escaped pet mouse through a school while depicting such common school items as scissors, paper, books, and chalk. Readers are challenged to identify the objects as seen from the mouse's point of view.

By viewing nine subjects both in full-page photos and through die-cut pages, the reader learns that things may be perceived in different ways.

Photographs of familiar objects are first viewed through a cut-out hole, then in their entirety.

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.