Ames Room Illusion
The distortion of scale: when giants and dwarves swap places.
🧐 What do you see?▼
A person is moving across a room. As they move from the left corner to the right, they appear to shrink significantly. In reality, the person is stayting the same size—it is the room that is getting deeper.
🧠 Why this works▼
The Ames Room is a trapezoidal room built to look perfectly rectangular when viewed from a specific peephole.
When a person stands in the "far" corner (which looks like the "near" corner), they appear tiny because they are physically further away. Your brain, assuming the room is a normal rectangle, decides that the person must have actually shrunk rather than the room being crooked.
🧪 Try variations▼
Adjust the Intensity to change the severity of the room's "skew." At low intensity, the room looks more normal and the size change is less dramatic.