Background
Sarcone was born in Vevey, Switzerland, on March 20, 1962.
Gianni A. Sarcone.
(Designed and drawn by a famous puzzle maker, the book is ...)
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.
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2014
(Here are 135 of the most interesting and challenging opti...)
Here are 135 of the most interesting and challenging optical illusions from one of the masters of the art. Start easy, and go up the ladder of difficulty to test your powers of visual perception. All the answers are there, as well as the explanations of why and how things can be seen.
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2014
(Featuring a superlative collection of incredible visual i...)
Featuring a superlative collection of incredible visual illusions, this is a coloring book that's different. You will be kept entertained for hours a you figure out how to color them to best effect. This is guaranteed to stimulate your mind as well as bring out your creative instincts.
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2014
(Make Your Own 3D Illusions offers deceptive images, visua...)
Make Your Own 3D Illusions offers deceptive images, visual tricks, and optical puzzles with an exciting extra dimension: the book is completely interactive!
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2014
(Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous ...)
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.
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2014
(This book will scramble your eyeballs and boggle your bra...)
This book will scramble your eyeballs and boggle your brain with Perplexing Puzzles, Impossible Illusions, Loopy Lines, and more dizzying delights! Sound like fun? Explore the mysteries that lie right inside our own minds (including the key scientific concepts of perspective and perception) and share the magic with your friends and family.
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2015
(Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic ...)
Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic designers, teachers, and artists who want to explore illusions that are distorted in size or create the perception of movement. Amateur illusionists are invited to draw curves that diverge and converge, diamonds that vibrate and flicker, hypnotic spirals, ghosts, and ambiguous figures, and many other visual tricks.
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2015
(This activity and coloring book features over 50 "impossi...)
This activity and coloring book features over 50 "impossible" optical illusions to color along with, and activities that show you how to create your own optical illusions! What happens when you try to color in an optical illusion? Find out with You Can't Possibly Color This!, a fascinating journey into the twisted world of illusions that will have you scratching your head as you attempt to color in objects that can’t exist in real life.
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2017
Sarcone was born in Vevey, Switzerland, on March 20, 1962.
All Sarcone’s works are based on the same essential principle: awaken curiosity. It was around 1990 that he started developing new visual concepts called "Kinoptic art" (Kinoptic = Kinetic + Optic). The main idea of Optic or Kinoptic Art is to play with our optic nerves, to surprise and to create the illusion of colours, dimensions, and motion.
Gianni Sarcone has served as a contributing editor to Focus Junior (Italy), Query-CICAP (Italy), Rivista Magia (Italy), Alice & Bob/Bocconi University (Italy), Brain Games (United States), and Tangente (France). Sarcone is also a designer and a researcher with more than thirty years of experience in the fields of visual creativity, recreational mathematics and educational games.
Sarcone was a juror at the Third Annual "Best Illusion of the Year Contest", which was held in Sarasota, Florida (United States). Amongst his notable projects, he produced and designed a "hypnotic" visual illusion that was used in the logo and institutional signage of Grec Festival of Barcelona in 2014. It was an important cultural event that features avant-garde musical, dance and theater performances.
Besides, Gianni Sarcone has written and published a number of educational textbooks and illustrated books on brain training and on the mechanism of vision. He writes his books in English, French and Italian. He is the founder of Archimedes-lab.org a consulting network of experts specializing in improving and developing creativity - for which he has been commended with a long list of accolades and awards.
Some of the artist's artworks, including The Other Face of Paris and Flashing Star, have become very popular on the Internet. His works were also presented in several national and international television programs, including Rai 3, Italy; RTL 9 Channel, France; TSR 1 Channel, Switzerland.
(This activity and coloring book features over 50 "impossi...)
2017(This book will scramble your eyeballs and boggle your bra...)
2015(Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous ...)
2014(Gianni Sarcone offers an approachable how-to for graphic ...)
2015(Designed and drawn by a famous puzzle maker, the book is ...)
2014(Make Your Own 3D Illusions offers deceptive images, visua...)
2014(This book is here to explain why, with astounding images,...)
2017(Featuring a superlative collection of incredible visual i...)
2014(Here are 135 of the most interesting and challenging opti...)
2014Hold on Tight
Hypnotic Vibes
Muons
Pink Polynomial
Losing My Mind
Unspiral
Warping Texture
Moving Flows
Ghost Dots
Rotating Rings
Xmas Lights
Morellet like effect (blue)
Sparkling Dots
Deadly Dazzles
Marylin Revealed
Asu - Breath - Respiro
Running Waters
Golden Fluids
Joyful Umbrellas
Blue Brain Waves
Super Beams
Burning Heart
Mystic Flying Bat
Flashing Star
Quotations:
"A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions."
"The German poet Novalis said that the eye is a ‘superficial’ organ. That is indeed partly true."
"The greatest optical illusion of all is to believe that an image has only one interpretation."
"Open your eyes wide and immerse yourself in your dreams without any hesitation!"
"Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke."
"We long for a technological world, while keeping the natural aspect of our environment; we want the progress, while maintaining the traditions; we want organization while preserving individual freedom; we produce at a large scale while looking for unique products; we want clearness in our relationships, while we like to play with the ambiguity; we wish everlasting happiness while seeking incomparable magic moments… In reality, from all these contradictions, we are looking for only one thing: ASTONISHMENT. We would life to astonish us every day! That’s why we all, human beings, love playing, because games are synonymous of risk and astonishment. Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality."
"Life is a space between two illusions: Birth and Death..."
"Are the eyes an open door to the world, as poets say? Well, honestly, not really. The fact is, we see the world through a pair of tiny peepholes, the pupils of our eyes. Our brain functions as a highly creative ‘camera obscura’ - the forerunner of the modern photographic camera, named from the Latin for dark room."
"Your eyes - those incredible jelly balls beneath your forehead - capture everything around you. They are sense organs allowing you to see, and they give more information about your surroundings than any of the other four senses: hearing, taste, touch and smell."
"Colors are ghosts, they only start to exist when light is perceived on the retina as a stimulus and is processed into color perception in our brain."