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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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Build this simple eye-tricking instrument on the cheap, for about 10 bucks.

Photograph courtesy of Rob Hartmann

TEN DOLLAR PSEUDOSCOPE

See everything inside out through this classic optical instrument.

By Rob Hartmann

The pseudoscope is a device that plays a trick on the eyes, switching the perception of near and far by reversing stereoscopic vision. It was invented by the great Victorian-era scientist Charles Wheatstone, and M.C. Escher used one to help create some of his famous perspective-bending illustrations.

You can buy one of these unusual devices for about $800 from Grand Illusions, so I decided to build a simple one of my own. Actually, ...

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