Book

Fantastic optical illusions : exciting visual illusions, color tricks, perplexing puzzles, and more!

Call Number

  • J 152.148 FANT (OSH)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : DK Publishing/Penguin Random House, 2017.

Physical Description

72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Summary

"Fantastic Optical Illusions is filled with visual illusions, color tricks, perplexing puzzles, quizzes, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Cover title.

"Content previously published in 'Optical illusions' in 2012, 'Mind benders' in 2013, and 'Color illusions' in 2014"--Copyright page.

Contents

  • What is an illusion?
  • 2-D or not 2-D?
  • Learn your lines
  • Sizing it up
  • Moving pictures
  • Do you see?
  • Are you bright enough?
  • Double take
  • That's impossible!
  • Mind benders
  • Think outside the box
  • A-maze-ing paths
  • Are you in the loop?
  • Wordplay
  • Seeing is believing
  • Mad math
  • Defying gravity
  • Body benders
  • Do try this at home
  • Answers
  • Color vision
  • After images
  • Color effects
  • Why is color useful?
  • Who's who?
  • Now you see me ...
  • Did you know?
  • Colorless.

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