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Optical illusions

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• Hallucinations and illusions
• Physiological optics
• Visual perception

• Anamorphosis (Visual perception)

• Illusions, Optical

• Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications (1922), by Matthew Luckiesh (illustrated HTML with commentary at visualillusion.net)

• (A)wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2001), by David R. Castillo (PDF at Purdue)
• La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Phantasmata: or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms, Productive of Great Evils (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1857), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: G. and W. B. Whitaker, 1824), by Samuel Hibbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blind Owl, by Sadeq Hedayat, trans. by Iraj Bashiri (PDF at angelfire.com)
• Christina Alberta's Father (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics, Translated From the Third German Edition (3 volumes; The Optical Society of America, 1924-1925), by Hermann von Helmholtz, ed. by James P. C. Southall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Description de la Vision (in French; London: Shorn, 1776), by Peter Degravers, illust. by J. Dezauche (page images at NIH)

• Digital Light (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, and Nathaniel Tkacz (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• More on Oxymoron, by Patrick Hughes (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)

• Studies in Visual Communication (early issues titled Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication; 1974-1985) (full serial archives)

• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)

• Procedures for Testing Color Vision (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Document Image Analysis (electronic executive briefing edition, from authors' original files; first published 1997), by Lawrence O'Gorman and Rangachar Kasturi (PDF at usf.edu)

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (c2006), by Christopher M. Bishop (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)
• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction (c2022), by Nathaniel Johnston and Dave Greene (PDF with commentary at conwaylife.com)
• Classical Cellular Automata: Mathematical Theory and Applications (Saarbrucken: Scholar's Press, 2014), by V. Z. Aladʹev (zipped PDF at yandex.com)
• Exploring Discrete Dynamics: The DDLab Manual (Frome, UK: Luniver Press, c2011), by Andrew Wuensche (PDF and page images with commentary in the UK)
• A New Kind of Science (Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, c2002), by Stephen Wolfram (illustrated HTML at wolframscience.com)
• The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (c2016), by G. 't Hooft (PDF and EPub with commentary at springer.com)
• Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach (electronic edition, c2004), by Moshe Sipper (PDF with commentary via moshesipper.com)
• Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers, by Stephen Wolfram (PDF files at stephenwolfram.com)

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004)
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Cinema of Confinement (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c2019), by Thomas J. Connelly (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Carolyn P. Collette (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Eliot and the Visual Arts (1979), by Hugh Witemeyer (HTML at Victorian Web)