Illusions of Seeing: Exploring the World of Visual Perception

Thomas Ditzinger is a science author and an applied-science editor with the SpringerNature publishing house in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart, where he also did his doctorate and has modelled various perceptual phenomena such as the recognition of ambiguous patterns and the perception of spatial depth. During research sojourns at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida, at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Stuttgart and at the Hochschule der Medien (University of Media) in Stuttgart he produced over 30 publications on human perception. He has written ten popular science books, including Fantastic Images 1 and 2, both of which topped the bestseller list in Germany. Thomas Ditzinger lives in Reichartshausen on the edge of the Odenwald Forest and has four children. Chapter 1. First Journey: Light, Perception and the Laws of Seeing.- Chapter 2. Second Journey: The Geometrical-Optical Illusions.- Chapter 3. the Third Journey: Perception of Forms and Brightness.- Chapter 4. Fourth Journey: Ambiguous Perceptions.- Chapter 5. Fifth Journey: The Colors and the Grey Everyday Life.- Chapter 6. Sixth Journey: Spatial Vision.- Chapter 7. Seventh Journey: Movements Are Life.- Chapter 8. Eighth Journey: Everyday Life Isn’t Grey at All – Illusions in Our Daily Lives.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.