Of the diverse sensory organs, humans mostly rely on visual perception for their behaviors. As people think at the same time of visual stimulation perception, optical illusion can be caused from visual perception. By breaking away from the habitual ov...
Of the diverse sensory organs, humans mostly rely on visual perception for their behaviors. As people think at the same time of visual stimulation perception, optical illusion can be caused from visual perception. By breaking away from the habitual overlooking of such optical illusion, which is to view it as a simple visual perceptional error, this study looked into the kind of visual environment causing visual illusion and established anamorphosis accompanying illusion effect. In this process, the necessity was seen for education to expand students’ visual sensation and cognitive ability. This study, in line with such educational necessity, analyzed literature to understand the relative characteristics of visual perception, idea and categorization of anamorphosis and optical illusion while examining the effect of anamorphosis working diversely in our daily lives. Specific teaching guidelines were developed for optical illusion-involving anamorphosis drawing class in this study. And the guidelines were applied to class to explore the possibility of providing lectures about optique and catoptrique anamorphosis. As a result the following conclusions are made; First, optical illusion-based class stimulated students’curiosity and interest by offering unexpected visual changes, inducing high student engagement in appreciating optical illusion. Second, students recognized the fact that anamorphosis is a broadly observed visual phenomenon ranging from biological examples to works of modern art. Third, by expressing the theme of work with their own name and face, students could recognize self-esteem and preciousness of themselves. Forth, by escaping from fixed kind of visual experiences, student could observe things with more expanded horizon and experience more creative thinking from the visual experience. Fifth, in order to come up with effective optical illusion and anamorphosis, students calculated the screen in mathematical and scientific manners, realizing the class was related to other subjects. The class in this study is expected to help students overcome the limited way of thinking that optical illusion is a visual error and build a fresh and expanded viewpoint to look at things. By doing so, students can enrich their insight and ability to think critically to explore for themselves some factors causing visual illusion around our everyday lives. And such a self-directed research ability will be a driving force behind the students’ independent role in enjoying cultural aspects.