Those studying art spend a long time learning about how to create the right perspective. Depending on what's around a tree or animal, the main part of the image can look different, bigger, smaller, closer, or farther away. It's really just a trick. Readers learn how the brain is affected by these optical illusions through accessible content as well as many examples they'll have fun deciphering. Including STEAM concepts including art, science, and engineering, this high-interest volume draws readers in and will engagingly boggle their minds.

Photos of old household utensils designed for task that are no longer needed. "You well give the right hemisphere of your brain a workout by trying to identify the function of these household implements"--Foreword.

Ultimate Eye Twisters is a bumper collection of crazy and mesmerizing optical illusions and visual puzzles. It contains hours of eye-boggling, mind-twisting fun for kids who love the challenges of visual trickery.

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 The book includes many new and previously unpublished illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known illusions.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.

A beautiful, fascinating and educational book of optical illusions and eye tricks, created by experts, Eye Tricks takes the reader on a journey around the brain, teaching why we see the way we do, and even how we think!Eye Tricks is a fantastic eye-catching book filled with 150 superb, colorful optical illusion illustrations, all designed and drawn up by archimedes-lab.org, the Italian puzzle and illusion creator. This book contains another huge batch of your favorite eye-boggling images, including previously unpublished optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known examples.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 also a glossary of illusion terms and a gallery of classic illusion types.

A collection of optical illusions.

A collection of over 100 optical illusion puzzles, with explanations of the reasons for their effects.