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Optical illusions Optical illusions Bill Martin Jr. Presents a number of common optical illusions, without explanation of the reasons for their effects. OL15067067W
Colorful illusions Colorful illusions Aki Nurosi Illustrates different types of optical illusions and explains the reason for the illusion in each picture. OL15842137W
Stand-up magic and optical illusions Stand-up magic and optical illusions Nicholas Einhorn This book introduces stand-up magic tricks that readers can perform in front of a large audience. Readers learn how to create all of the necessary props themselves, with everyday materials such as bo… OL17730639W
Optical illusions Optical illusions Publications International, Ltd "Train your brain with optical illusions! Do you think you can believe what your eyes are telling you? Think again! In this collection of optical illusions, nothing is as it seems. Pictures seem to m… OL18174875W
Sleights of mind Sleights of mind Stephen L. Macknik Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tr… OL19902383W
Harry Potter magic eye book Harry Potter magic eye book Magic Eye Inc Computer-generated 3D images of Harry Potter characters emerge when the viewer "decodes" the drawings. OL20646199W
Mind muddlers Mind muddlers Anna Bowles Presents visual puzzles and optical illusions, using the rules of perspective and visual perception to trick the mind. Includes information on how to create your own illusions. OL20905496W
Pocket Optical Illusions Pocket Optical Illusions Sam Taplin 128 pages : 14 cm OL21085830W
Start Art Start Art Carolyn Scrace 32 pages : 28 cm OL21603626W
You Can't Possibly Color This! You Can't Possibly Color This! Gianni Sarcone pages OL21607406W
Seeing is believing Seeing is believing Gareth Moore Can your eyes deceive you? Try these amazing optical illusions to find out. Look hard, then look again to see ... Spinning patters, colours that change, big and small shapes ... and lots more. OL24297530W
Optical illusions Optical illusions Inga Menkhoff Looks at various types of optical illusions, including distortion illusions, motion illusions, color illusions and afterimages, and impossible objects and images. OL24845176W
Sea life in 5-D stereograms Sea life in 5-D stereograms Stephen Schutz 4rnjb edtnmk wtfnokjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjSEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OL3149315W
Optical illusions Optical illusions Laurence B. White Explains how optical illusions trick the eye and fool perception and provides examples and instructions for readers to make their own. OL3468456W
Visual magic Visual magic Thomson, David A collection of over thirty visual tricks and illusions involving colors, shapes, patterns, and perspective. Includes 3-D glasses and an answer key. OL4080698W
Light and sight Light and sight Melvin L. Alexenberg Experiments, primarily with mirrors and color, demonstrate such optical phenomena as magnification and refraction. OL4656963W
Experimenting with illusions Experimenting with illusions Robert Gardner Explains how visual perceptions are processed and suggests how illusions can be produced with images and graphics. OL467528W
Eye teasers Eye teasers Karl Heinz Paraquin Presents more than one hundred optical illusions, with explanations of the reasons for their effects. OL4968028W
Babel-17 Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovere… OL56834W
Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see? Angela Wenzel Explores how still-life paintings can look three-dimensional, how open doors can lead nowhere, and how other optical illusions are created in paintings by artists ranging from Raphael to Escher. OL5747483W
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