Optical Illusion Magic: Visual Tricks & Amusements

✍ Scribed by Michael A. DiSpezio

• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 82
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Illustrated in full color, these optical illusions are cool and fun for all ages. Entertain yourself or impress your friends for hours.

Boggle your mind with afterimages, impossible figures, flip-flopping faces, and more that will confuse your vision. Figure out what the secret message is in letters that are stretched out. Look at two lines and decide which one is longer (or are they both the same length?). "Bend" a rigid pencil. Stare at a pattern of triangles and see how your mind organizes them into all sorts of imaginary patterns, shapes, peaks, and shades.

There's only one thing you can be sure of when it comes to optical illusions: Appearances are deceiving!

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Shortcuts
Illusion Basics
Bending the Rules
Illusions and the Eye
Eye Tricks
Connections
Only the Shadow Knows
Spots Before Your Eyes
The Circle Game
Spiral Bound
Lengthy Confusion
Lengthy Lines
Shape Illusions
Slants
Patterns
Cool Shades
Afterimages
Image Stretch
Mosaics
Illusionary Figures
More Things That Don’t Exist
Powerful Patterns
Broken Lines
Case Closed
Flip-Flopping Faces
More Flip-Flops
Page Poppers
A New Outlook
Impossible Figures
More Impossibilities
Saying Power
Deep Thoughts
Building 3D
Popping Out of Paper
Stereography
Red/Blue 3D
Out-of-This-World Illusions
About the Author
Index