education

  1. Educational illusion 4

    illusion 4 papercraft Illusions may occur with any of the human senses, but visual illusions (optical illusions) are the best-known and understood. The emphasis on visual illusions occurs because vision often dominates the other senses. For example, individuals watching a ventriloquist will...
  2. Educational illusion 3

    illusion 3 papercraft An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the mind normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Although illusions distort our perception of reality, they are generally shared by most people.
  3. Educational Hellraiser Lemarchand Puzzle Box

    Hellraiser Lemarchand Puzzle Box papercraft A puzzle box (also called a secret box or trick box) is a box that can be opened only by solving a puzzle. Some require only a simple move and others a series of discoveries. Modern puzzle boxes developed from furniture and jewelry boxes with secret...
  4. Educational illusion 2

    illusion 2 papercraft The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar, or the impossible triangle, is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object.
  5. Educational illusion

    illusion papercraft Some illusions are based on general assumptions the brain makes during perception. These assumptions are made using organizational principles (e.g., Gestalt theory), an individual's capacity for depth perception and motion perception, and perceptual constancy. Other illusions...
  6. Educational [illusion] Anti-Gravity Double Cone

    [illusion] Anti-Gravity Double Cone papercraft The mechanical paradox is an apparatus for studying physical paradoxes. It consists of a trapezoidal veneered wooden frame with two brass rails, and a pair of brass cones joined at their bases by a wooden disk which rests on the rails. When the...
  7. Educational [illusion] Two Rings

    .[illusion] Two Rings papercraft The Chinese linking rings is a classic of illusion magic in which solid metal rings appear to link and unlink, pass through each other, and form chains and other complex patterns and configurations. The rings may even be handed out to audience members for...
  8. Educational [illusion] U and Bar

    [illusion] U and Bar papercraft A window is formed in the shape of a trapezium. It is often hung and spun around to provide the illusion that the window rotates through less than 180 degrees.
  9. Educational [illusion] Escher's Endless Stairs

    [illusion] Escher's Endless Stairs papercraft The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose.[5] A variation on...
  10. Educational Alphabet

    Alphabet papercraft Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries...