Gianni Sarcone's Books

The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each trick works. Templates included at the back of the book reveal answers and aid the creation of astounding illusions. The science behind each element will be simply explained in an engaging way, to encourage the reader to find out more each time. Throughout the book will be chances for the reader to get hands-on with the illusions, with step-by-step experiments, or tips on how to draw your own "moving" optic art on paper or on the computer.

They are right before your eyes, but your brain can be tricked into seeing something entirely different, or not seeing it altogether. They hide secrets in plain sight. Here are 135 of the most interesting and challenging optical illusions from one of the masters of the art. Start easy, and go up the ladder of difficulty to test your powers of visual perception. All the answers are there, as well as the explanations of why and how things can be seen.

A picture tells a thousand words . . . or does it? These diverse puzzles each illustrate a different form of illusion. There’s even a crossword puzzle grid with a hiding place tucked inside. The accompanying captions explain the visual and psychological processes that allow these illusions to work—and make them endlessly compelling. Each beautiful picture puzzle contains a mystery: hidden or camouflaged figures that play tricks on your eyes. Some may blend into the background. One image may conceal another. Even though our brain tries to pinpoint and focus on the richly detailed designs, it just can’t. And because of their complexity, these illusions fascinate our eyes, stimulate our minds, and expand our imagination.

Fool your brain with mind-boggling illusions, then get hands-on and make your own to wow your friends! Learn all about the science behind these wacky phenomena, from moving liquid on a page, to shapes that disappear in front of your eyes with this clever guide. The brain is an amazing thing, but it doesn't always get things right when it comes to sight. This book is here to explain why, with astounding images, baffling puzzles, and simple reveals which show the reader how each trick works. Covering a range of optical topics, from shapes and movement, to light and reflection, this cool manual contains templates at the back which reveal answers and help you to create your own astounding illusions.

An interactive activity and coloring book featuring 50-plus "impossible" optical illusions to color along with, and activities that show kids how to create their own optical illusions.

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.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover.

Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions. The fun-filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper without ripping or making any cuts in the paper. Advance to the Elastic Playing Card, in which it's possible to cut a hole into a playing card big enough for someone to climb through. Other incredible 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.

Treasury of 300 puzzles features 3D and chess puzzles, connections, dissections, foldings, geometrical and number puzzles, logic problems, matchstick puzzles, mazes, moving pieces, put-togethers, strimkos, sudoku, and visual and word puzzles.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover

A fascinating collection of 270 visual conundrums to test your perception and boost your intelligence.

What Are You Looking At includes hundreds of colorful images, all accompanied by details of how they fool the eye. Some contain puzzles to solve, some contain little tricks and others are simply amazing patterns that will move before your eyes. A great big book filled with fantastic, colorful optical illusions, from the experts at Archimedes.org in Italy with more than 250 full color images, most of them unique to this book and specially drawn for it.

Contains more than 150 colorful optical illusions just waiting to blur your vision and put your brain in a spin! This book is great for adults and children alike, and the authors explain why it is that your brain and eyes can be fooled so easily.

Containing many new optical illusions, as well as new adaptations of lesser-known optical illusions, this title carries an explanation of how each image works - the story behind it, when it was discovered or who invented it first, and details of why it fools the human brain.

Contains a collection of over 200 unusual illusions including hidden objects, color and brightness effects, illusory moving patterns, and image paradoxes.

Optical Puzzles" is a fascinating collection of 270 visual conundrums to test your perception and boost your intelligence. Each illusion is accompanied by a solution or explanation that will shed light on the incredible interaction between your eyes and your brain.

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.

Contains a collection of over 200 unusual illusions including hidden objects, color and brightness effects, illusory moving patterns, and image paradoxes.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover.

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.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover

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.

Includes activities and make-your-own illusions to trick your eyes and baffle your brain!"--Cover

The fascinating optical puzzles in this book will challenge your eyes and imagination! From illusions that appear to spin or vibrate, to hidden images and impossible figures, this collection will amaze and perplex you. Each illusion is accompanied by a solution or explanation that sheds light on the interaction between your eyes and brain. The illusions in the book include those involving size and shape, ambiguous and impossible figures, brightness and movement, and visual and cognitive tests.

3D Illusions is a highly original book that offers deceptive images, visual tricks and optical puzzles. But there is an exciting extra dimension it is completely interactive and gets readers directly involved in trying to solve the illusions themselves with a fully tactile experience. So it?s actually a book that contains unique three-dimensional images!The book contains more than 50 puzzling images, each requiring you to find the mind-boggling solutions using the accompanying card press-out pieces. The clever teasers call for you to arrange or fold the specified pieces in the correct way to fit shapes inside another shape, create new shapes, pictures with an extra or missing object, patterns and logos. One of our favourites involves the optical effect tops black and white discs which, when spun, project a colour illusion!

Published to accompany an exhibition of Versace design that opened in 1997 - With commentary on the major inspirations and themes of the designer, his creative interpretations of the past, his visions of costumes for the opera and the dance, his ideas for the male and his innovative uses of different materials.

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!

Book's by Gianni Sarcone

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