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Adventures With Impossible Figures
Describes the methods which are used to construct intriguing impossible figures which can tease the eye and baffle the imagination. Copious examples are drawn from the author's own work and the fertile imagination of Escher and Oscare Reutersvard.
- GenresArtMathematics
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First published January 1, 1987
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March 11, 2022
Simple book with some of the clever impossible triangles, solids, cuboids, mono- and multi-bars, and more. Ernst even provides some traceable patterns for the reader to construct some of the objects. (I suppose one could cut them out of the book, but that's just silly.) Part of an Italian bind up of four books, but each is paginated separately within.
December 3, 2024
Straightforward practical guide
December 10, 2020
3 / 5 for 'Adventures With Impossible Figures' by Bruno Ernst
An interesting and informative look into optical illusions, specifically those of solid figures/ constructs. Ernst explains the theoretical side of these illustrations very well, making complex concepts quite easy to understand.
There is a large amount of artwork and illustrations in this book, but they're all very basic, and very little colour is used. Actual pieces of famous artwork, involving or studying optical illusions and impossible figures, have all been replicated reasonably poorly; one, in particular, was almost impossible to actually see.
Perhaps these issues have been addressed in later editions, as I own the 1986 original, but the art in this book lets it down quite badly.
It's very sort too, at only 95 pages. I feel that the book could have been padded out with more information, more commentary, more examples of impossible figures and even more detailed explanations into the science behind them. Only 95 pages makes this a very short book, especially when half (if not more) of these pages are filled with poor quality illustrations.
I enjoyed this book, and it was well written, but it was also very, very short and the illustrations and artwork were very poorly produced.
3 / 5
An interesting and informative look into optical illusions, specifically those of solid figures/ constructs. Ernst explains the theoretical side of these illustrations very well, making complex concepts quite easy to understand.
There is a large amount of artwork and illustrations in this book, but they're all very basic, and very little colour is used. Actual pieces of famous artwork, involving or studying optical illusions and impossible figures, have all been replicated reasonably poorly; one, in particular, was almost impossible to actually see.
Perhaps these issues have been addressed in later editions, as I own the 1986 original, but the art in this book lets it down quite badly.
It's very sort too, at only 95 pages. I feel that the book could have been padded out with more information, more commentary, more examples of impossible figures and even more detailed explanations into the science behind them. Only 95 pages makes this a very short book, especially when half (if not more) of these pages are filled with poor quality illustrations.
I enjoyed this book, and it was well written, but it was also very, very short and the illustrations and artwork were very poorly produced.
3 / 5
December 31, 2015
Brilliant little intro to impossible figures for artists and enthusiasts alike.
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