How It Works

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This is an Ames room, a room where you can appear to tower over your taller friends or shrink to the size of a baby. As an example of a distorting illusion, this room is all about hiding the true shapes and positions from your eyes and brain. When viewed from a specific angle, the room’s true dimensions are hidden. Careful detail and artwork is added to make the room appear a regular square shape. When two individual­s stand in the far corners, they appear to be standing in line with each other, with one giant person looming over a miniature version of the other. But the floor is not level. The corner where the smaller person stands is at an incline, putting them lower down. Your eyes and brain, used to seeing rectangula­r rooms, don’t notice the slanted walls.

 ??  ?? Tiled flooring is specifical­ly chosen to make the two people appear level
From the viewing area it doesn’t look like the smaller person is further away from you
Tiled flooring is specifical­ly chosen to make the two people appear level From the viewing area it doesn’t look like the smaller person is further away from you

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