In the late forties, visual researcher Adelbert Ames Jr. designed a series of visual illusions to demonstrate how the mind forms hypotheses about reality and depth. In one such illusion, Ames tested aspects of depth perception in a specially designed, distorted room.
July 5, 2008 at 5:37 am |
Wow, that’s brilliant! I’d love to go there and see how it looks from the inside!
July 28, 2008 at 10:00 pm |
I look forward to more posts by you.
August 17, 2008 at 4:34 am |
This Illusion is called an Ames room, the room is skewed larger in one back corner and smaller in the other, when views straight-on the room looks normal except for the fact that the people in it either look like giants or midgets!
October 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm |
You’re freaking me out, man!
November 1, 2008 at 2:42 am |
WOW
November 5, 2008 at 4:57 pm |
did they use the same technique in “love guru” movie? it’s really cool to see things like this.
November 25, 2008 at 2:46 pm |
WOw Thats mind blowing , i cant able believe my eyes !
December 2, 2008 at 3:30 am |
You know, whenever I see optical illusions such as this one, I am reminded of how incredible it is that something like 5,000 years ago a man sat under a tree in N India, and figured this out just through thinking. He figured out the mind will only draw conclusions from what it perceives through the senses and what it knows from experience….and VWLA you have an optical illusion!!
Buddhism, whether you believe in it in its entirety, is INCREDIBLE in is scientific qualities!!
December 9, 2008 at 11:23 am |
Very nice post.. good work.
December 10, 2008 at 9:19 pm |
very interesting!
February 18, 2009 at 5:37 am |
This is so neat. There are rooms like this in the Fun-House on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls, Ont. If anyone is interested in checking them out. Its a pretty fun place. They have distorted rooms just like this one, and other ones built on angels and halls of mirrors and such. =)
February 27, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
Interesting picture XD
March 5, 2009 at 11:37 am |
Great page. I love these kind of illusions….It still doesn’t seem right.
March 20, 2009 at 3:52 am |
LOL w0w this is hilarious I want to recreate it now LOL, kinda reminds me of honey I blew up the baby
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April 1, 2009 at 10:06 pm |
I remember going into one of these rooms in a museum as a young boy. You do not get to experience the illusion yourself while inside the room, but it is great fun to see other’s reactions to it!
May 23, 2009 at 5:54 am |
hehe nice article and cool blog
June 9, 2009 at 1:26 pm |
You’ve got an awesome blog here – I’ll spend many hours scrolling through. Thanks!
August 30, 2009 at 3:08 pm |
Can look for ages at that picture!
October 14, 2009 at 1:36 am |
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I think the time frame of 5,000 years past predates the birth of Buddha and therefore Buddhism. INCREDIBLE indeed but I guess it’s all a matter of perception.