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Proof that seeing is not believing, this collection of designs and puzzles alerts readers to the many different kinds of illusions they encounter everyday. Nurosi, a color expert at the Rhode Island School of Design, deconstructs each illusion and explains the effects of color on the easily beguiled eye. He also includes a glossary of terms related to color. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don’t trust anything you see at first glance, because it’s impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hats—two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: are they taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same dimensions? Or try climbing the wild set of stairs: they’ll have you going in circles and in squares. There’s plenty of beautifully intriguing fun on these pages.
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