An incredible 365 optical illusions.

A rich assortment of visual mind-bogglers, including "impossible objects" — constructions that look fine on paper but can't possibly exist in reality — as well as pulsating patterns, vanishing spots, pictures that suddenly change into other configurations as you're looking at them, and much more. 60 black-and-white illustrations.

Looks at various types of optical illusions, including distortion illusions, motion illusions, color illusions and afterimages, and impossible objects and images.

Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions.

Text and diagrams explain easy-to-do magic tricks which utilize common objects such as coins, rubber bands, and string.

Using only common household items — handkerchiefs, string, playing cards, coins, thimbles — the 127 magic acts in this fully illustrated guide will help young novices amaze family and friends.

Dozens of scientific "magic tricks" based in mathematics, chemistry, optical illusion, paper cutting, and magnetism.

Contains more than 150 colorful optical illusions just waiting to blur your vision and put your brain in a spin! This book is great for adults and children alike, and the authors explain why it is that your brain and eyes can be fooled so easily.

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

This intriguing collection contains more than 275 optical illusions that appear to change before your eyes. Al Seckel carefully selected both well-known images, such as Shepard's tabletop, Wade's spiral, Ames room and Rubin's face/vase, and many lesser-known, but no less effective, illusions. Every type of optical illusion is here, along with notes about the science of each visual perception and how the illusions work. Among the baffling images and shapes are: Figure/ground illusions, in which one shape switches into another then back again Ambiguous figures Impossible objects Trompe l'oeil Stereo illusions. With illusions rendered in photography, artwork and computer imaging, and a huge variety of themes and effects, Optical Illusions dazzles both the mind and the eye.