[CAMERA READY COPY] OPTICAL DESIGNS IN MOTION WITH MOIRE OVERLAYS by Carol Belanger Grafton - (1976)

Kenetic Art-- a book without text. Original "manuscript" for a popular modern design book: Grafton's Optical Designs in Motion.

COMPLETE PHOTO-READY MAQUETTE for the 1976 book, Optical Designs in Motion with Moire Overlays . (New York: Dover Publications) 32 pp. + 81 ills. Each board has three columns , each an original photograph of a specific design pattern. The book was issued without text, other than the publisher's note and title page. Provenance: Dover Publications Inc. archive.

Printer's photo-ready original boards for the 1976 first edition of Grafton's Optical Designs in Motion, a landmark publication for Op-Art enthusiasts and graphic designers, as well as physicist and computer scientists in fields as varies as image scanning and illumination microscopy. The publisher called the book "A vast variety of dazzling and seemingly three-dimensional illusions can be created by moving four transparent moire patterns over eighty-one optical designs." GRAFTON, CAROL BERLANGER. Optical Designs in Motion with Moire Overlays . New York: Dover Publications, 1976, 32 pp. + 81 ills.