Download or read book Illusion s Game written by Chogyam Trungpa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what he calls a "200 percent potent" teaching, Chögyam Trungpa reveals how the spiritual path is a raw and rugged "unlearning" process that draws us away from the comfort of conventional expectations and conceptual attitudes toward a naked encounter with reality. The tantric paradigm for this process is the story of the Indian master Naropa (1016–1100), who is among the enlightened teachers of the Kagyu lineage of the Tibetan Buddhism. Naropa was the leading scholar at Nalanda, the Buddhist monastic university, when he embarked upon the lonely and arduous path to enlightenment. After a series of daunting trials, he was prepared to receive the direct transmission of the awakened state of mind from his guru, Tilopa. Teachings that he received, including those known as the six doctrines of Naropa, have been passed down in the lineages of Tibetan Buddhism for a millennium. Trungpa's commentary shows the relevance of Naropa's extraordinary journey for today's practitioners who seek to follow the spiritual path. Naropa's story makes it possible to delineate in very concrete terms the various levels of spiritual development that lead to the student's readiness to meet the teacher's mind. Trungpa thus opens to Western students of Buddhism the path of devotion and surrender to the guru as the embodiment and representative of reality.

Download or read book Optical Illusions Game written by Paul Baars and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical Illusions Game is a new game that resembles the emory game, but with three bonuses: 1. Instead of a set of two the player has to find a set of four. 2. When the set is completed, the player has to puzzle the four cards into one image. 3. Presto: the four cards form an image of an optical illusion to discover and marvel at. The goal of the game is to collect four cards that form one optical illusion. The player who collects the most optical illusions wins the game. The optical illusions in this game were selected by Paul Baars, a world famous author and expert on optical illusions. For this game he has selected a broad range of mindboggling illusions from the famous classical ones to new illusions created by contemporary designers and artists. The Optical Illusions Game consists of 80 cards and 20 illusions as well as a brochure in which the illusions are shown and briefly explained.

Download or read book A Precarious Game written by Ergin Bulut and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

Download or read book Go Games Optical Illusions written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s real? What’s not? Reality is strange—and seeing isn’t believing. When you look at an optical illusion, your brain tries to fool your eyes and what you expect to find on the page isn’t what’s there. Apart from being both endlessly fascinating and awe-inspiring visually, these illusions also force viewers to go outside their comfort zones, challenge the nature of perception, and think creatively. Their minds have to work overtime to become more flexible. That’s what makes these 240 puzzles, ranging from simple scintillation effects to impossible staircases and concealed creatures, so absolutely addictive. See how Santa "measures up" to his helper; the scale doesn’t seem to be telling the truth! Compare two lines: one seems longer, but can’t that really be true? Look at a triangular sculpture and figure out if it’s "impossible." Move a picture from side to side and watch it spin. Try to "remove" a magic glass from the plate, count the number of "F"s in a line (but only read it once!), and locate the main subject in the masterpiece "Las Meninas," painted by the artist Diego Velazquez. This collection of illusions will enable you to experience the impossible and marvel at the miraculous.

Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions written by Al Seckel and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.

Download or read book The Science of Illusions written by Jacques Ninio and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in visual perception, Ninio (Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris) presents many classic and new illusions, explains the underlying logic of the various types, and suggests their value for neurological and physiological research. He does not provide an index. La Science des Illusions was published in 1998 by Editions Odile Jacob. Philip has translated widely from the French, including an autobiography of Francois Jacob. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Fun Puzzles Games 30 Optical Illusions Games Puzzles for Parents Kids written by Rosa Suen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch how your eyes play tricks on you! Puzzles & Games SPECIAL EDITION: The Instructions are given in the book so that you can play this game on the kindle device by yourself and with your children. Use these 3 Level Games to Challenge Your Eyes & Mind. Parents can play. Use this Game to teach your children to use their mind and eyes to play this game. Age Level: 7 years old & up Target audience: Adults, Teachers, Students, Teens, Children HOW TO PLAY INTERACTIVELY ON THE Mobile DEVICE: The entire game is hyperlinked in the book with clear instructions so that you can interactively play on the screen and move from one game quiz to another. 1. Each Game has an image. 2. A Question is asked. 3. A Hint is given. 4. You figure out the answer. 5. Hit the answer link to check the explanation. 6. Hit & move on to the next game quiz. 7. Look up your score sheet result to see where you stand. 8. Hit & move on to the Next Level. LEVEL ONE Game Puzzle #1: Two Pictures in One Game Puzzle #2: Elephant Legs Game Puzzle #3: Black Dot Illusion Game Puzzle #4 Vertical Line Illusion Game Puzzle #5: Parallel Lines Game Puzzle #6: How many arrows? Game Puzzle #7: Straight or Crooked? Game Puzzle #8: Circle Illusion Game Puzzle #9: Spiral Image or not? Game Puzzle #10: Crazy Line Illusion LEVEL TWO Game Puzzle #11: Wacky Circle Game Puzzle #12: Reversible Images Game Puzzle #13: The Picture of Many Faces Game Puzzle #14: Double Image Illusion Game Puzzle #15: Sphere Illusion Game Puzzle #16: Wavy Lines Game Puzzle #17: The Tallest Soldier Game Puzzle #18: Light Bulb Illusion Game Puzzle #19: Count the Black Circles Game Puzzle #20: Double image illusion. LEVEL THREE Game Puzzle #21: Squares or circles? Game Puzzle #22: Wavy Squares Game Puzzle #23: 2 Words Game Puzzle #24: The Disappearing Gray Circle Game Puzzle #25: Double Image Illusion Game Puzzle #26: Stair Illusion Game Puzzle #27: A Liar Face Game Puzzle #28: Father and son Game Puzzle #29: Crazy Line Illusion Game Puzzle #30: The Extra Hole Have Fun! Rosa

Download or read book MediEvil written by Chris Sorrell and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The un-dead hero of MediEvil returns in this thrilling prequel from the original creators of the critically acclaimed videogame. After being swept through time and landing in his own past, Sir Daniel Fortesque finds himself teaming up with old friends – including a were-dog and cockney-fairies – in order to once again save the kingdom of Gallowmere. The evil sorcerer Zarok is raising an evil un-dead army, and Sir Dan is the only one who can ensure his cowardly former-self prevails. Delve deep into MediEivl lore as the secret history of Sir Dan is revealed, and a brand new adventure, that follows on directly from MediEvil 2, begins!

Download or read book Optical Illusions written by Paul M. Baars and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are fascinated by optical illusions. There is something intrinsically satisfying about static pictures that appear to move, change color, or fool us into seeing things that "aren't really there." This comprehensive survey of optical illusions includes an astonishing range of images from ancient times to the present. Covering illusions of depth, inversions, vibration effects, ambiguous figures, camouflage, anamorphic art, tessellations, and other visual brain teasers, it presents examples from psychology, the popular press, the decorative arts, contemporary street art, and the fine arts. M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Liu Bolin, and other artists are generously represented. Thanks to author Paul Baars's deep engagement with the art and science of optical illusions, this book supersedes all others on the subject.

Download or read book 1 000 Playthinks written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of visual challenges, riddles, and puzzles.

Download or read book Supervisions written by Al Seckel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These amazing artistic optical illusions have real depth - that's because they're in 3D! Some have to be viewed through a pair of red & blue paper glasses, which come with the book: put them on & watch decorative cubes, towers, & other complex geometric drawings spring to life, gaining volume & space.

Download or read book Beyond Choices written by Miguel Sicart and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players. Today's blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination. In Beyond Choices, Miguel Sicart calls for a new generation of video and computer games that are ethically relevant by design. In the 1970s, mainstream films—including The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver—filled theaters but also treated their audiences as thinking beings. Why can't mainstream video games have the same moral and aesthetic impact? Sicart argues that it is time for games to claim their place in the cultural landscape as vehicles for ethical reflection. Sicart looks at games in many manifestations: toys, analog games, computer and video games, interactive fictions, commercial entertainments, and independent releases. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, literary studies, aesthetics, and interviews with game developers, Sicart provides a systematic account of how games can be designed to challenge and enrich our moral lives. After discussing such topics as definition of ethical gameplay and the structure of the game as a designed object, Sicart offers a theory of the design of ethical game play. He also analyzes the ethical aspects of game play in a number of current games, including Spec Ops: The Line, Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, Fallout New Vegas, and Anna Anthropy's Dys4Ia. Games are designed to evoke specific emotions; games that engage players ethically, Sicart argues, enable us to explore and express our values through play.

Download or read book Epidemic Illusions written by Eugene T Richardson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492. Deploying a range of rhetorical tools and drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, Richardson concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions—one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production.

Download or read book The Illusion Game written by Timothy C Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by dwarf lore and elven splendor a dragon slips beneath the veil on a mission of destruction. The artificial intelligence of the adversary system is supposed to make Great Illusions Games a break-out success. Yet in one disastrous evening the AI Adversary brings down the Great Tree of Life and immolates himself and the entirety of the Elven Kingdom. The loss of data is immense and couldn't come at a worse time. Don Archer, the game's creative director and chief architect, has just a few weeks until the game's public debut to train up a new AI Adversary and recreate a third of the massive world. Jaxom Cain is a bard and accomplished illusionist and yet he is as green as they come. While traveling in the Orc Borderlands he is recruited by a group of adventurers on a quest for Jaribae's Beard and the Chests of Lore. He blunders through the first few orc encounters but learns fast. He's never known any world but this one, and yet the paladin, hunter, rogue and druid he adventures with speak of strange things that hint at another reality. The paladin Loki befriends Jaxom and recruits him for his arena team. Little do they know that one day they will become great rivals for control of the Illusion Game.

Download or read book An Original Computer Game Incorporating Optical Illusions written by Jacob Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer games have a diverse range of genres and implementations. Many of the most popular computer games consist of time-killing puzzles targeted at mobile devices. Each game has a well-defined challenge that a user must solve in order to progress. The goal of this project is to investigate and implement a new obstacle for use in computer games, namely optical illusions. One illusion in particular, the Fraser spiral, was especially considered. Before this project, no other computer game integrating this optical illusion has been attempted. Included in this report is an overview of the design, implementation and testing involved in creating this game. A gameplay method is introduced that effectively makes use of the Fraser spiral illusion. Tests were conducted in order to investigate the impact of the illusion on user performance. The results of these tests demonstrate the plausibility of using optical illusions to increase gameplay difficulty.

Download or read book 30 Optical Illusions Games and Puzzles for Parents and Kids written by Rosa Suen and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch how your eyes play tricks on you!KINDLE SPECIAL EDITION: The Instructions are given in the book so that you can play this game on the kindle device by yourself and with your children.Use these 3 Level Games to Challenge Your Eyes & Mind. Parents can play. Use this Game to teach your children to use their mind and eyes to play this game.Age Level: 7 years old & upTarget audience: Adults, Teachers, Students, Teens, ChildrenHOW TO PLAY INTERACTIVELY ON THE KINDLE DEVICE:The entire game is hyperlinked in the book with clear instructions so that you can interactively play on the screen and move from one game quiz to another.1. Each Game has an image.2. A Question is asked.3. A Hint is given.4. You figure out the answer.5. Hit the answer link to check the explanation.6. Hit & move on to the next game quiz.7. Look up your score sheet result to see where you stand.8. Hit & move on to the Next Level.LEVEL ONEGame Puzzle #1: Two Pictures in OneGame Puzzle #2: Elephant LegsGame Puzzle #3: Black Dot IllusionGame Puzzle #4 Vertical Line IllusionGame Puzzle #5: Parallel LinesGame Puzzle #6: How many arrows?Game Puzzle #7: Straight or Crooked?Game Puzzle #8: Circle IllusionGame Puzzle #9: Spiral Image or not?Game Puzzle #10: Crazy Line IllusionLEVEL TWOGame Puzzle #11: Wacky CircleGame Puzzle #12: Reversible ImagesGame Puzzle #13: The Picture of Many FacesGame Puzzle #14: Double Image IllusionGame Puzzle #15: Sphere IllusionGame Puzzle #16: Wavy LinesGame Puzzle #17: The Tallest SoldierGame Puzzle #18: Light Bulb IllusionGame Puzzle #19: Count the Black CirclesGame Puzzle #20: Double image illusion.LEVEL THREEGame Puzzle #21: Squares or circles?Game Puzzle #22: Wavy SquaresGame Puzzle #23: 2 WordsGame Puzzle #24: The Disappearing Gray CircleGame Puzzle #25: Double Image IllusionGame Puzzle #26: Stair IllusionGame Puzzle #27: A Liar FaceGame Puzzle #28: Father and sonGame Puzzle #29: Crazy Line IllusionGame Puzzle #30: The Extra HoleHave Fun!Rosa

Download or read book Everything Is an Illusion written by Ramana Maharshi and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is helpful about reading these types of quotes is that the more you can realize that everything is an illusion the better you can ignore everything and turn inward. One of the most significant aspects to this collection of quotes by the Sages is that in addition to pointing out that everything is a dreamlike illusion, the also point out in many of their quotes that upon Self Realization everything disappears. They also state that realizing that the world, etc. is an illusion is essential for Self Realization. The type is Palatino 15 for crisp clear easy reading. This book contains all of the quotes in Chapter (Step) Two from the book The Seven Steps to Awakening. Everything is an Illusion is Book Five in the Self Realization Series. One purpose of the Self Realization Series is to put just one category of quotes into a small book that has the advantage of making it easier to focus, meditate on, grasp and have insight into just one subject at a time. That makes the approach simple, easier and less complicated. The idea is to stay focused on just one subject until you have received everything you need to receive from that one subject. Most people go on to the next subject without ever having learned to apply to their lives the subject they are studying now. The Self Realization series of books are portable practice manuals aimed at helping sincere seekers of Self Realization master one Key to Self Realization at a time. The six titles in the Self Realization Series are: 1.Self Awareness Practice Instructions. 2.The Desire for Liberation. 3.The False self. 4.Inspiration and Encouragement on the Path to Self Realization. 5.Everything is an Illusion. 6.How Not to Get Lost in Concepts.