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Can You Believe Your Eyes? | 
 enlarge | Author: Block
Brand: CRC Press I LLC
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 230988
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.9
MPN: 0876306954
ISBN: 0876306954
Dewey Decimal Number: 152.148
EAN: 9780876306956
ASIN: 0876306954
Publication Date: June 1, 1989
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Product Description
By J. Richard Block & Harold Yuker -- ?Can You Believe Your Eyes? features over 250 visual illusions and explanations of the dynamics of each. Includes illusory figures, camouflage, aftereffects, distortion, perception, color and more. Hardcover, 248 pages. ?World?s Best Optical Illustions contrains over 100 optical illusions (or does it?) to tease and please. Complete explanations for each illusion. Softcover, 96 pages.
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GREAT FUN & yet very educational...understanding how the brain really works! March 15, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first classic book on visual illusions by J Richard Block, the author, who also wrote a second book entitled 'Seeing Double'. Both are printed in large format. In fact, there is also a card deck which amplifies the earlier book.
Both books discussed the phenomena of human perception through hundreds of perplexing visual illusions & mind-bending eye tricks gathered from around the world.
The entire collection in the two books is definitely amazing and unique in some way.
The best learning experiences I got out of these two wonderful books are a greater understanding - & appreciation - of how the brain really works. I often use many of the visual illusions to demonstrate the principal operating principles of the brain, particularly the salient aspects of selective recognition and patterning. I have also found that some of them have been very useful in demonstrating cognitive traps & pattern interrupts, especially in the context of personal creativity.
Although the visual illusions are fun to play with, I find them very educational, just as what I have elaborated.
There is another type of visual illusions, known as random dot stereograms (some people call them 3D visual illusions), which are more fun but somewhat harder to play with. Nevertheless, they are also very educational, especially in understanding - & appreciating - how the brain really works!
A great book! It's fun to see different people figure it out April 1, 1999
5 out of 25 found this review helpful
A great book!!!!Watch others try to figure out the puzzles
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