Art and Illusionists

• Main Author: Wade, Nicholas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Vision, Illusion and Perception, 1
• Subjects: Engineering.; Arts.; Graphic design.; Popular works.; Computational intelligence.; Cognitive psychology.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Popular Science, general.; Cognitive Psychology.; Graphic Design.; Computational Intelligence.

We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces. This has proved fascinating to humankind since the dawning of depiction. Art and illusion...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Perspective Paradoxes
• Trompe l’oeil
• Mosaics and Tiling
• Impossible Figures
• Surrealism
• Geometrical Optical Illusions
• Ambiguity
• Hidden Images
• Word and Image
• Colour
• Contrast
• Faces
• Scintillation and Apparent Motion
• Moiré and Motion
• Stereoscopic Vision.