Optical Illusions Books

Packed with all-new illustrations and a delightful new design, this book features over 70 activities to fool all five senses. Each illusion is followed by a fascinating "Why You're Fooled" section that explains the science and history behind the "magic."

From the creator of the I Spy books and the award-winning, irresistibly aquatic A Drop of Water comes Walter Wick's Optical Tricks. Optical illusions abound in Wick's stunning color photographs--tricking the brain into pursuing phantom images. In the opening spread, entitled "First Impressions," we see a white glob of smashed clay, with sunken impressions of objects such as buttons, screws, and chess pieces. But when you turn the page upside down, the clay impressions seem to pop out!

An obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions-both original as well as must-do classics. Jam-packed on the page and illustrated throughout in full-color, with a visual for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is like a call to action.

They're interesting, involving, beautiful, subtle, and they all play visual tricks! Step into the color zone...where cool effects are the rule and nothing is what it first appears to be. Colors can always fool you-making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better-looking than they really are. And, when they interact with a range of very special forms and shapes, the optical magic becomes more powerful still.

The longer you look, the more you get fooled. That's the fun of optical illusion puzzles. Coins rearrange themselves. Pictures disappear and reappear. Numbers add up to the same sum even when you remove some of them. Study a landscape and find 164 hidden objects. Stare into a 3-D picture until a ball is caught. See which knots won't really tie anything. Trace some mazes with only one right path, and one with over 600. 4-color illustration

You won't believe your eyes! How could you possibly be seeing a hole in your hand, solid objects that don't exist, or straight lines standing up and making a carpet fly? They're optical illusions -- images that trick and deceive you.

Is it a crone or a lovely lady? A dapper man with a ascot or a toothless old geezer? Things are not always what they seem at first glance... or even at second or third. The Playful Eye is a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world. With a full-color puzzle or conundrum to tease the eye and intrigue the mind on every page, this generously sized volume goes far beyond other optical illusions books.

Presents over 250 visual illusions gathered from around the world to explore the psychology of vision. Discusses the phenomenon of human perception and the use of illusions in society.

Learn how to unravel the mysteries of creating space, depth, and perspective in your quilts - textile pictures that play tricks on your eyes!

Covers a tremendous variety of effects, and the over 150 different illusions are so powerful and delightful, that the book should keep you, your family, and friends delighted for hours and hours.

Seeing is believing on this journey into the world of optical illusion. This delightful new book invites children to solve mysteries, puzzles, and visual mazes, and reveals how artists from the Renaissance to the present day bewilder and enchant us.