An incredible selection of visual trick puzzles and oddities. You'll never trust your eyes anymore after looking through this incredible selection of the world's finest vision-tricking puzzles and oddities! There are hidden objects and lost people to find, mazes to unravel, double meanings to decode, and impossible objects to comprehend-as well as spatial confusions, optical distortions, and "warped" pictures. For example: one picture shows a disk with 13 baseball players drawn on the edge. Tilt it slightly and there are only 12! Brain-bending, mind-blowing, and out-of-this-world unbelievable: you'll never trust your eyes anymore after looking through this incredible selection of the world's finest vision-tricking puzzles and oddities. There are hidden objects and lost people to find, mazes to unravel, double meanings to decode, and impossible objects to comprehend--as well as spatial confusions, optical distortions, and "warped" pictures. For example: in one puzzle, you'll see a disk with 13 baseball players drawn on the edge. Tilt it slightly and guess what--there are only 12! Another shows a variety of lamps the shop assistant has said they're all different, but if you check carefully you'll discover that two of them do have the same shape and pattern.

Presents a collection of over one hundred and eighty optical illusions with the answers presented at the end.

Cool distortions, a perplexing parallel pattern, afterimages, 3-D foolery, a shady comparison, imaginary interference, flip flopping faces, and other optical illusions will "trick" you into seeing what isn't there! There's one thing you can be sure of, when it comes to optical illusions: appearances are always deceiving! The author lives in North Falmouth, CA. 80 pages (all in color), 10 x 10.

Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --

Watch these amazing optical illusions materialize in front of your very eyes as you color them in! Aimed at compulsive doodlers and colorers, this book contains 40 stunning illusions with keys to the hues that produce the most striking effects. Any medium from felt tips and paint to markers and pencils will work, and full-color renderings of each design serve as a guide.

"Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with almost three hundred different artworks. You will be amazed as some images flash and scintillate before your eyes, while others disappear right in front of you. Size and shape can lose their meaning, you'll see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads! You won't believe your eyes!" --

Filled with more than 150 amazing, colorful illusions, this collection features images of previously unpublished illusions, moving patterns and color perception, and more. Each image comes with an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain.