Download or read book Puzzillusions written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puzzillusions written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amazing Visual Illusions written by Gianni Sarcone and published by Arcturus. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the book, each image is accompanied by an explanation of how it works, the story behind it – when it was discovered or who invented it first – and the details of exactly why it fools the human brain. The book includes many new and previously unpublished illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known illusions. It also includes works by well-known illusion artists such as Bridget Riley, Salvador Dalí, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Oscar Reutersvärd, René Magritte, István Orosz and Rob Gonsalves. There are chapters on the following subjects: optical illusions from the real world (mirage, refraction, afterimage), ambiguous figures, impossible figures, color adaptation, moving illusions and paradoxical illusions.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curiopticals written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features more than 150 fascinating optical illusions, from the earliest, experimental imagery to the present.
Download or read book Shades of Grey written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller and “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Early Riser Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. And Eddie Russet wants to move up. But his plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Juggling inviolable rules, sneaky Yellows, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself, Eddie finds he must reckon with the cruel regime behind this gaily painted façade.
Download or read book Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Big Book of Optical Illusions written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of over 200 unusual illusions including hidden objects, color and brightness effects, illusory moving patterns, and image paradoxes.
Download or read book How to Draw Incredible Optical Illusions written by Gianni Sarcone and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Super Optical Illusions written by Gianni A Sarcone and published by . This book was released on 2017-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Droodles written by Roger Price and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low art as high humor in this classic collection from master artist and humorist Roger Price.
Download or read book Mog at the Zoo written by Helen Nicoll and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mog is locked up in a cage after the zoo-keepers mistake him for an escaped tiger.
Download or read book Make Your Own 3D Illusions written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make Your Own 3D Illusions offers deceptive images, visual tricks, and optical puzzles with an exciting extra dimension: the book is completely interactive! More than 50 three-dimensional images designed by Archimedes' Laboratory require readers to manipulate press-out cards to fit shapes inside shapes, create new shapes, and more. The all-important answers--if you need them--are also included, along with explanations of how the illusions fool the brain. Sure to provide endless hours of fun … and frustration!
Download or read book Meg s Eggs written by Helen Nicoll and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While casting a spell to produce something for supper, Meg the witch creates three eggs that hatch dinosaurs.
Download or read book Meg s Castle written by Helen Nicoll and published by Viking Childrens Books. This book was released on 1979-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg, Mog and Owl stay in a castle. They meet a ghost, fight a battle, and have a feast.
Download or read book The Island of the Colour blind written by Oliver Sacks and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees – and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical in The Island of the Colour-Blind.
Download or read book Nelson Mandela by Himself written by Nelson Mandela and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time. This collection - gathered from privileged authorised access to Mandela's vast personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings - features nearly 2,000 quotations spanning over 60 years, many previously unpublished. Mandela's inspirational quotations are organised into over 300 categories for easy reference, including such aspects as what defines greatness in 'Character', 'Courage' and 'Optimism', while we learn from the great man the essence of democracy, freedom and struggle in the categories 'Democracy', 'History', 'Racism', 'Reconciliation' and 'Unity'. Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the first, and only, authorised and authenticated collection of quotations by one of the world's most admired individuals.
