Puzzling Optical Illusions

by Thomas Crawford

Book Overview

Here is a delightful collection of mysterious optical illusions -- pictures that play tricks on the eye and baffle human perception. Some of these images are the result of shortcomings in our vision; others are still not completely understood. This book contains a rich assortment of these visual mind-bogglers, including "impossible objects" -- constructions that look fine on paper but cannot possibly exist in reality -- as well as pictures that suddenly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486401510
• ISBN13: 9780486401515
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher