Visual Illusions

by James Kingston

Overview

Visual Illusions, also called Optical Illusions are basically games the eyes play with our brains. They take many forms, there are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement), and cognitive illusions where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences. Visual Illusions with a descriptive introduction, then details thirty of the most common examples of these Illusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844062089
Publisher:	TAJ Books International
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

James Kingston has been fascinated with science from the age of four. Having travelled the world in his twenties and early thirties where he worked as an set designer for movies and commercials, and kept up a career in motor-racing amongst other varied jobs. In his mid-thirties he decided to return to academia; he read for a degree in computer science at the University of Exeter, for which he was awarded a first-class honours degree. This was followed by a doctorate in advanced materials engineering.