Upon viewing people or objects within an ames room there is a loss of normal perspective.
Ames room illusion.
An ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion likely influenced by the writings of hermann helmholtz citation needed it was invented by american scientist adelbert ames jr.
In 1946 and constructed in the following year.
An ames room is viewed with one eye through a peephole through the peephole the room appears to be an ordinary rectangular cuboid with a back wall.
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To the audience it looks as an ordinary room but it is cleverly distorted so that visitors experience an amazing visual illusion.
In one corner a giant in the other a miniature.
In this illusion an object standing at one end of the room looks like a.
Experience how a person walking back or forth grows and shrinks before your very eyes in this incredible room of illusions.
He based his design on a concept originally conceived by hermann helmholtz in the late 19th century.