Curiopticals

Curiopticals
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher: Carlton Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781847322296

This book features more than 150 fascinating optical illusions, from the earliest, experimental imagery to the present.

Amazing Optical Illusions

Amazing Optical Illusions
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher: Sevenoaks
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781862004917

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.

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-05-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486795659

Fun-filled, math-based puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.

Optical Illusions

Optical Illusions
Author: Gianni Sarcone
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1682973395

Fool your brain with mind-boggling illusions, then get hands-on and make your own to wow your friends! Learn all about the science behind these wacky phenomena, from moving liquid on a page, to shapes that disappear in front of your eyes with this clever guide. The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each trick works. Covering a range of optical topics, from shapes and movement, to light and reflection, this cool manual contains templates at the back which reveal answers and help you to create your own astounding illusions.

How to Draw Incredible Optical Illusions

How to Draw Incredible Optical Illusions
Author: Gianni Sarcone
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1607349604

Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic designers, teachers, and artists who want to explore illusions that are distorted in size or create the perception of movement. Amateur illusionists are invited to draw curves that diverge and converge, diamonds that vibrate and flicker, hypnotic spirals, ghosts, and ambiguous figures, and many other visual tricks.

Eye Bogglers

Eye Bogglers
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2014
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781742977256

Eye Bogglers is a crazy picturegallery of mesmerising opticalillusions and visual puzzles. Itcontains many new adaptations oflesser-known optical illusionsand plenty of favourite classics.A simple commentary introducescurious minds to this fascinatingworld where art and sciencecollide, and explains why theillusions work as they do.

Puzzillusions

Puzzillusions
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781741814286

Optical Puzzles

Optical Puzzles
Author: Gianni Sarcone
Publisher: Arcturus Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781848589391

A fascinating collection of 270 visual conundrums to test your perception and boost your intelligence.

Fantastic Optical Illusions

Fantastic Optical Illusions
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781844422951

Fantastic Optical Illusions is filled with another 150 superb, colourful optical illusion illustrations, all designed and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the Italian puzzle and illusion creator. This book, volume 2 in the series, contains another huge batch of previously unpublished optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known examples. Each image carries an explanation of how it works and details of why it fools the human brain. There is a glossary of illusion terms and a gallery of 'classic' illusion types.