Programming Visual Illusions for Everyone
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Beschreibung
If you find visual illusions fascinating Programming Visual Illusions for Everyone is a book for you. It has some background, some history and some theories about visual illusions, and it describes in some detail twelve illusions. Some are about surfaces, some are about apparent size of objects, some are about colour and some involve movement. This is only one aspect of the book. The other is to show you how you can create these effects on any computer.
The book includes a brief introduction to a powerful programming language called Python. No previous experience with programming is necessary. There is also an introduction to a package called PsychoPy that makes it easy to draw on a computer screen. It is perfectly ok if you have never heard the names Python or PsychoPy before. Python is a modern and easy-to-read language, and PsychoPy takes care of all the graphical aspects of drawing on a screen and also interacting with a computer. By the way, both Python and PsychoPy are absolutely free.
Is this a book about illusions or about programming? It is both!
If you find visual illusions fascinating Programming Visual Illusions for Everyone is a book for you. It has some background, some history and some theories about visual illusions, and it describes in some detail twelve illusions. Some are about surfaces, some are about apparent size of objects, some are about colour and some involve movement. This is only one aspect of the book. The other is to show you how you can create these effects on any computer.
The book includes a brief introduction to a powerful programming language called Python. No previous experience with programming is necessary. There is also an introduction to a package called PsychoPy that makes it easy to draw on a computer screen. It is perfectly ok if you have never heard the names Python or PsychoPy before. Python is a modern and easy-to-read language, and PsychoPy takes care of all the graphical aspects of drawing on a screen and also interacting with a computer. By the way, both Python and PsychoPy are absolutely free.
Is this a book about illusions or about programming? It is both!
Combines an introduction to some of the most wonderful visual illusions with a programming introduction focused on python and an introduction to a powerful graphics library (psychopy) Relies on minimal previous experience or knowledge and is written in a simple and engaging writing style Introduces the readers in a fun way to the powerful modern language Python, allowing them to create their own illusions on their computer Enables exploration of the most striking dynamic illusions by introducing visual illusions through programming Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Marco Bertamini
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“Bertamini, a cognitive scientist (Univ. of Liverpool, UK), explores various visual illusions while introducing the reader to the Python programming language. … there are links to helpful resources for those who wish to learn more about the field. … Overall, this is an original, practical guide. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” (C. Vickery, Choice, Vol. 55 (9), May, 2018)
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