Colorful Illusions: Tricks to Fool Your Eyes

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Make different colors look the same... Make the same colors look different.. Make objects look bigger or smaller... And make it all make sense! Think you see something? Try again! These colorful illusions are easy -- or are they? Puzzle them out and start to look at color in a whole new way! Stumped? Wondering why these amazing effects affect you? Turn to the answers in the back and find out. Colorful illusions are challenging, confounding, and fun...and that's no illusion.

SYNOPSIS

Step into the color zone...where cool effects are the rule and nothing is what it first appears to be. Colors can always fool you--making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. And, when they interact with a range of very special forms and shapes, the optical magic becomes more powerful still. Just try one out and see if you can tell what's going on.

FROM THE CRITICS

Children's Literature - Barbara Youngblood

This is a book to ponder over and study a little at a time. Color and design have an enormous effect on our life. The author gives us many examples of the ways color and light can actually play a trick on us. Study the pages, answer the questions and then look for the author's answers at the back of the book to see if you were correct. We are tricked many times at the grocery store, by television and magazine ads, or at the auto dealership by color and the impressions it makes on our brains. Learn more about this fascinating field. The reader will learn more about the Laws of Proximity and Similarity and the Principles of Closure and Good Continuation. A glossary further explains terms used in the text. 2000, Sterling Publishing,

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