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Optical Illusions Books
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Duck! Rabbit! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,994 ratings — published 2009
Walter Wick's Optical Tricks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.15 — 106 ratings — published 1998
Don't Blink! (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,104 ratings — published 2018
The World's Best Optical Illusions (English and German Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.17 — 18 ratings — published 1987
The Incredible Moving Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1987
Visual Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 1991
Incredible Visual Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 79 ratings — published 2003
Hello, Red Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,251 ratings — published 1998
Shadow Knitting (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.70 — 101 ratings — published 2004
Perspective and Other Optical Illusions (Wooden Books)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 80 ratings — published 2007
Optical Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.25 — 92 ratings — published 2012
Optical Illusions: Amazing Deceptive Images - Where Seeing Is Believing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 21 ratings — published 2007
Eye Tricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
The Fantastic World of Optical Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2002
Seeing with the Mind's Eye: The History, Techniques and Uses of Visualization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.92 — 64 ratings — published 1975
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,035 ratings — published 2017
Fantastic Optical Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published
Jaw-Dropping Optical Illusions: Over 150 Intriguing Illusions to Test Your Mind (Professor Murphy's Emporium of Entertainment)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published
The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.02 — 175 ratings — published 2006
The Great Book of Optical Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.98 — 51 ratings — published 2005
Gallop (Board book)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,281 ratings — published 2007
Round Trip (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,391 ratings — published 1983
Opitical Illusions: 70 Mind-Boggling Tricks That Defy Belief (Professor Murphy's Emporium of Entertainment)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Picture Puzzler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 1994
Optical Illusions: Lower Your Brain Age in Minutes a Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.33 — 21 ratings — published
Eye Can't Believe It: Incredible Optical Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Xtreme Illusions: Perplexing Puzzles, Amazing Mind Tricks, Impossible Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,178 ratings — published 1954
Painted Circus, The: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 59 ratings — published 2007
Palazzo Inverso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.73 — 186 ratings — published 2010
It's Me, Marva : A Story About Color and Optical Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2001
What in the World: Look Again: Fun-tastic Photo Puzzles for Curious Minds (National Geographic Kids)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.22 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Tricks and Optical Illusions Experiment Log (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Pocket Puzzlers: Optical Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2000
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Optical Illusions (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2002
Optical Illusions & Picture Puzzles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1998
The Magician's Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,390 ratings — published 2015
Colorful Illusions: Tricks to Fool Your Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2000
Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Amazing World of Optical Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.61 — 33 ratings — published 1998
Magic Moving Images: Animated Optical Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published 2007
Experiments in Optical Illusion (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1951
The Playful Eye: An Album of Visual Delight (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.96 — 23 ratings — published 1999
Amazing Visual Illusions: Trick Your Mind and Feast Your Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2011
Challenge! Fun With Puzzles, Riddles, Word Games, and Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1968
The Phantom Limb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 2.80 — 92 ratings — published 2011
Opt: An Illusionary Tale (Picture puffins)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.93 — 44 ratings — published 1987
Photomosaics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 1997
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,663 ratings — published 2010
Optical Designs in Motion with Moire Overlays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as optical-illusions)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1976
“Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
“Hallucinations relate to the higher cognitive functions of the brain. I was reading about someone at Columbia who asked volunteers to differentiate between houses and faces. Signals in the frontal cortex became active whenever subjects expected to see a face, irrespective of what the actual stimulus was. They would look at a house and "see" a face.
It's called, you know Predictive coding. The brain has an expectation of what it will see, then compares this with information from the eyes. When this goes tits up, hallucinations occur. Our eyes don't present to our brains exact photographs of the things we see. They are more like sketches and impressions chattering along the optic nerve for the brain to interpret. That's what optical illusions are about. The brain's software is perfectly capable of simulating a vision in this way”
― The Blasphemer
It's called, you know Predictive coding. The brain has an expectation of what it will see, then compares this with information from the eyes. When this goes tits up, hallucinations occur. Our eyes don't present to our brains exact photographs of the things we see. They are more like sketches and impressions chattering along the optic nerve for the brain to interpret. That's what optical illusions are about. The brain's software is perfectly capable of simulating a vision in this way”
― The Blasphemer
