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Enter the world of visual magic where a random pattern of squares suddenly becomes a face, or when special glasses (found in the book) transform a dotted pattern into 3-D splendor. Thirty tricks and illusions will delight you for hours. Watch as a goldfish seems to vanish from a picture, try to figure out which of two goats is actually bigger, and focus on the workings of some and#8220;impossibleand#8221; shapes.
Synopsis
Keep your eyes glued to the page...because something strange and wonderful is happening! When lines look longer than they really are, when a random pattern of squares suddenly becomes a face, or when special glasses (found in the book) transform a dotted pattern into 3-D splendor -- then visual magic is in the air. These 30 tricks and illusions will delight you for hours. Watch as a goldfish seems to vanish from a picture, try to figure out which of two goats is actually bigger, and focus on the workings of some "impossible" shapes. Here's one to whet your appetite, called Upstairs, Downstairs, drawn by artist M.C. Escher. At first glance, this illustration looks like an ordinary house. But start tracing the staircase at the top it with your finger, beginning at what you think is the bottom step. The staircase seems to be going up...and yet the top and bottom steps are actually next to each other!