Some of the sources I can remember…
- Bach & Poloschek (2006) Optical Illusions (PDF, 2 pages from ACNR)
- Campenhausen & Schramme “Das listige Auge” Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co Stuttgart 1996
- Frisby JP (1983) Sehen. Optische Täuschungen, Gehirnfunktionen, Bildgedächtnis. Heinz Moser-Verlag, München
- Gregory RL (1966) Auge und Gehirn. Zur Psychophysiologie des Sehens. Kindlers Univ. Bibliothek, Kindler Verlag, München
- Held R, Richards W (1972) Perception: Mechanisms & Models. Readings from Scientific American. Freeman & Co, San Francisco
- Hübner R (1994) Visuelle Welt. Spektrum-Verlag
- Kanizsa G (1979) Organisation in vision. Praeger Scientific, New York
- Kelly MA (1992) ‘Dream Weaver’; – A program to demonstrate some common visual illusions
- Rock I (1984/1995) Perception. New York: W.H. Freeman, Scientific American Library
- Rock I (1985) Wahrnehmung. Vom visuellen Reiz zum Sehen und Erkennen. Spektrum-der-Wissenschaft-Verlag, ISVN 3-922508-71-5
- Schober H, Rentschler I (1972) Optische Täuschungen in Wissenschaft und Kunst. Heinz Moos Verlag München
- Teuber HL (1960) Perception. In: Field J, Magoun HW and Hall VE (Eds), Handbook of Physiology, Section I, Neurophysiology, American Physiological Society, Washington, 89–121
- Wade N (1982) The Art and Science of Visual Illusions. Rottledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, ISBN 0-7100-0868-6
- Adelson: Interactive Lightness Illusions
- Akiyoshi Kitaoka & Nagoya Visual illusion Experts Group(NVEG)
- Anstis’ Demos
- BLELB – very tasteful
- Developing Intelligence
- Diana Deutsch (musical / acoustical illusions)
- Exploratorium
- Calvert, JP, has a number of useful essays on optics and illusions
- Cornelia Fermüller’s demos and theory
- Cognitive Daily
- Colour & Vision Research laboratory and database
- Colour vision background
- Illusion contests (Neural Correlate society)
- Grand Illusions
- IllusionsForum (visual & auditory)
- Imagine! by Gyp
- Richard L Gregory
- Donald D. Hoffman
- Robert Krampf’s beautiful science teaching
- History of visual media
- Perception Lab, Trieste
- Project LITE
- Purves Lab
- Ramachandran’s Illusions
- Recreational Mathematics – Illusions
- Sandlot Science Optical Illusions
- Shapiro Lab Arthur Shapiro has now put his beautiful demos online
- Alan Stubbs’ rejuvenated Mach Bands
- The free Physics Textbook A beautiful physics encoclypedia, explains the optics involved in some of the phenomena
- Viperlib – a great, steadily growing source for all things vision, esp. demos
- Peter Wenderoth’s demos
Created: 1997-04-13. Unfortunately, many of these sources have now vanished.
