Gianni A. Sarcone

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About Gianni A. Sarcone

Gianni A. Sarcone is an author and a visual artist from Italy with over 30 years' experience in the fields of visual creativity, recreational mathematics and educational games. Much of his art blurs the line between cognitive sciences and communication.

Sarcone has written and illustrated several books on brain-training and on the mechanism of vision that have been translated to over 10 languages. In 2018, his book "Optical Illusions" won the prestigious Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize.

He is a co-founder of Archimedes-lab.org a consulting network of experts specializing in improving and developing creativity.

As Sarcone puts it, all his work is intended to "encourage people to look beyond what seems obvious and to open their mind to new emotions and dimensions."

In his spare time, he enjoys practicing martial arts (taekwondo and jujitsu) and cooking for friends.

Sarcone's Official Website:
http://www.giannisarcone.com

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Optical Illusions: An Eye-Popping Extravaganza of Visual Tricks (Dover Books on Magic, Games and Puzzles) Jun 20, 2014

by Gianni A. Sarcone , Marie-Jo Waeber

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"This is a very entertaining collection of optical illusions, full of pictures that will leave you scratching your head as you try to figure out how they've fooled you. There are loads of them, and it's the best optical illusion book I've come across." — Bertass Reviews Anything/World of Children's Books
An image on a page appears to vibrate, a face gradually disappears, and a puzzling cat makes an appearance in this feast of fascinating optical tricks. Children and adults can discover the fascinating intersection of art, science, and magic in a series of geometric illusions, delusions, distortion effects, and other impossible images.
Designed and drawn by a famous puzzle maker, the book is intended to perplex readers, to excite their sense of wonder, and to encourage them to question the nature of reality. The optical illusions, which combine visual interest with elements of psychology and recreational logic, include many original illusions as well as new adaptations of lesser-known visual tricks. Each of the images is accompanied by a simple commentary that explains how it works.

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The World of Visual Illusions: Optical Tricks That Defy Belief! Sep 11, 2013

by Gianni A. Sarcone

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Visual illusions is a fascinating collection of optical illusions, many of which have never before been published in this form. From classic illustrations of impossible figures to drawings of everyday objects which turn out to be extraordinary to scintillating graphic patterns which pulsate and change before your very eyes, the variety of different effects is almost endless!

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Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes (Dover Books on Recreational Math) May 25, 2014

by Gianni A. Sarcone , Marie-Jo Waeber

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Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions.
The fun-filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper without ripping or making any cuts in the paper. Advance to the Elastic Playing Card, in which it's possible to cut a hole into a playing card big enough for someone to climb through. Other incredible puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.

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And Yet It Moves!: 41 Incredible Self-Moving Optical Illusions May 13, 2014

by Gianni A. Sarcone , Marie-Jo Waeber

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The visual illusions featured in this intriguing ebook seems to move, wink, rotate, wobble, hover… Curiously enough, they aren’t animated gif but still images!
Precursor to the psychedelic movement and pop art, “op art” aims is to play with the perceptions of the spectators. This book contains a selection of original Sarcone’s op art works, authentic visual illusions that never are what they seem.
This entertaining book, divided into five sections showing different types of self-moving illusions, will alter your consciousness without drugs!

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