How does an Ames Room work?
In: Physics
Ames rooms work on the fact that your brain actually guesses at the sizes and distances of objects using a variety of clues.
It likes to do comparison of typical sizes. People tend to be a certain size, do if the object is a person, the brain assigns a size. Same with Windows. While they may vary in size of they are next to each other they are almost always identical.
The brain also uses how lines converge as defiance increase to help gauge how far away objects are.
Ames rooms mess with all of these clues to essentially lead the brain to the wrong conclusion. Bad data in, bad data out. The windows and lines in the setting *don’t* follow the assumed patterns, so relying on that will give the wrong interpretation of the sizes of people in the rooms.
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