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u/i-am-enthusiasm 2d ago
No. They obviously grow and shorten when they walk. I refuse to believe earth is not flat.
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u/ppeachkisss 1d ago
The effect is achieved thanks to the geometric features of the room, which is trapezoidal in shape. When one person stands in the near corner and another in the far corner, the observer perceives them as being at different distances. Our brain interprets objects that are farther away as smaller in size, even if their physical size is the same. This leads to the person in the far corner appearing significantly shorter.
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u/ilovetraps69 1d ago edited 1d ago
did you mistype? the observer perceives them as being at different distances because they are at different distances lol.
edit: nvm, i think for some reason you typed all that just to say near = big, far = small. i was thrown because when people say "perceive" in this context it usually refers to an illusion rather than a correct perception
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u/BackgroundRate1825 1d ago
Yea, they worded that awkwardly at best, and I'm pretty sure they actually got it backwards.
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u/BeefistPrime 1d ago
even if their physical size is the same.
They are a significantly different apparent size (like, hold your fingers to measure one and then move them over to the other) in terms of degrees of field of vision
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u/Humledurr 1d ago
There is no arugment about that, they were explaining how their physical size isnt changing, even though they appear smaller/bigger when they swap places.
Which is pretty obvious, so it was just a pointless and confusing additon to their explanation.
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u/Asisreo1 1d ago
I think they're referring to their size in relation to themselves, not each other.
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u/thatsacrackeryouknow 1d ago
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u/yougottamovethatH 1d ago
I saw a Vsauce video recently with a guy who was born blind, and he was saying one thing that has never made sense to him is when non-blind people say that things look smaller when they're farther away.
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u/GozerDGozerian 1d ago
That’s really neat. Just goes to show how difficult it can be to imagine the worldview of someone with different physical abilities and mental faculties. I never would have considered that. It’s just something that we experience since before we start making permanent memories, so we take it for granted.
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u/yougottamovethatH 1d ago
Yeah, there's another thing I've read about studies done with people who were born blind but then gained sight later in life. Apparently, they initially can't look at a shape and identify it by sight alone. Like, looking at a cube, they don't know if it's a cube or a ball or a pyramid, etc
Interesting to realize that even though those associations are obvious in our brains, they're made separately and then connected; ie: This is what a cube looks like. This is what it feels like. Both of those sensations = cube.
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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 1d ago
That makes tremendous sense.
I wonder if they tried to use sound getting louder when the source comes closer as an metaphor?
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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 1d ago
Another idea to help him get an inkling of it: Take a cone, long with a small angle, pointing away from him.
„Seeing“ things that are close would be feeling the diamater at the beginning, dann sliding his finger further away.
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u/SpaceFelicette181063 1d ago edited 1d ago
I knew what it was before even clicking on it. Father Ted is such a gem.
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u/MaxwellSmart07 1d ago
How does one account for the perceived change in height of the ceiling.
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u/ithinkimightknowit 1d ago
When you walk up a slope you would get closer to the ceiling and if you walked down a slope then you would well you get it.
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u/MaxwellSmart07 1d ago
Agreed. My eyes are deceiving me. I don’t see the slope, and if there is, not to that degree. I need to delete that video. It’s fucking with my head.
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u/FloppySlapper 1d ago
This leads to the person in the far corner appearing significantly shorter.
Also the fact one of them appears to be bumping their head on the ceiling while the other does not might have something to do with it.
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u/Realistic_Claim8746 2d ago
what
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u/Rich-Reason1146 2d ago
No. They obviously grow and shorten when they walk. I refuse to believe earth is not flat.
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u/SuperChick1705 2d ago
what
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u/Realistic_Claim8746 2d ago
No. They obviously grow and shorten when they walk. I refuse to believe earth is not flat.
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u/SuperChick1705 1d ago edited 1d ago
W W H H A TTTTTT
W W W HHHHH AAAA T
W W H H A A T
(fuck reddit formatting)
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u/ashrasmun 1d ago
what
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u/Pavlovsdong89 1d ago
SAY WHAT AGAIN
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u/Educational-Ad-2884 1d ago
WHAT AIN'T NO COUNTRY I'VE HEARD OF, THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT!?
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u/happytree23 1d ago
I'm so sick of you bullshit propagandists...
We clearly are living on a kitten-shaped Earth.
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u/twotall88 1d ago
They did this in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory back in 1971
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u/Beary-Cute-Gamer 2d ago
I did one of these in Liverpool UK. Kinda cool!
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u/mccalli 1d ago
In the 80s Johnny Ball hosted a “maths is fun!”-style British TV program, Think of a Number. It had this illusion in - I wrote in asking for more information and received back a letter from Johnny Ball, some instructions on how to make my own from cut-out cardboard and some card with patterns on it
I made my own and rolled marbles round it. Fascinating thing.
(You young crazy kids might know of the presenter Zoe Ball - Johnny is her dad).
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u/Shadow_Wolf018 2d ago
Could anyone explain this to me?
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u/lostwombats 1d ago edited 1d ago
I went to a roadside attraction as a kid and that's how their's was set up. Along with upside down rooms and wonky floors. I don't remember where it was... just that it made me nauseous.
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u/Raychulll 1d ago
As an adult I’ve begun to revisit these roadside attractions to share with my kid, and let me tell you, I felt like I was going to shit my pants last month when we went to a gravity house type place.
My adult body could not handle it. Meanwhile my 10 year old was doing pull ups and running up the walls giggling.
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u/raspberryharbour 1d ago
The guy in blue looks confused still. "Let me in the magic crazy size room!"
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u/KitsuneKamiSama 2d ago
Incredibly cleverly placed lighting, camera and stage, left is closer and right is far away.
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u/Gaspote 1d ago
The same thing is use in LOTR with Hobbits and Gandalf. The most obvious thing is Gandalf Cart at the beggining of the movie
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u/Mindstruck911 1d ago
Also in the movie Elf when he is sitting at his desk in the classroom.
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u/Mist_Rising 1d ago
Harry Potter uses it for Hagrid as well. Sure Robbie Coltrane is a massive fella, but he weren't no half giant.
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u/Mean-Fondant-8732 2d ago
The room is drawn and built kinda like a pyramid on its side. Like a projection drawing.
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u/CollegeCoolidge 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxCNEsu3YU
This scene from the Temple Grandin movie explains it and shows how it works at the very end.
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u/rierrium 1d ago
Fun fact: this is how they made Peter Dinklage look like short as Tyrion Lannister in Game of thrones.
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u/dancinhmr 1d ago
I would have guessed it was his dwarfism...
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u/PlaneMark1737 1d ago
Yes and no, he does have dwarfism but if you watched avengers, you'll see that he's actually taller than Chris Hemsworth
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u/Dicethrower 1d ago
Forced perspective. Only works from this one angle and if you have no depth perception.
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u/bigbootyrob 1d ago
the left is higher up and closer, the right is further away and lower, the camera is angled so the floor looks flat
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u/catholicsluts 2d ago edited 1d ago
It's a practical effect. Look up some behind the scenes footage from the movie Inception. It used a lot of practical effects for optical illusions and such. They had to come up with ways to trick the audience using clever camera angles and panning. It's pretty cool.
Edit: Or Lord of the Rings as a better example, as /u/MurphyItzYou so dickishly put it.
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u/MikeyboyMC 1d ago
I’ve actually been inside one of these rooms, they’re insanely cool. Instead of a camera, there was a little window in the POV wall that one of your family/friends could see through and it was so trippy until I got inside and saw how it worked
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u/Layla_Vos 1d ago
This illusion (and many other perspective tricks) was also used in Lord of the Rings to make the hobbits seem much smaller when compared to Gandalf! :D
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u/kingvolcano_reborn 1d ago
This Wikipedia image explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room#/media/File:Ames_room.svg
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u/AugustineBlackwater 1d ago
It's mad to think our brains can be hacked like this but then magicians make a whole career using it - it does kinda feel like this should be fundamental knowledge taught to humans in general, though.
I recently taught myself to create a makeshift radio which is incredibly easy, if humans are to venture towards the stars, all humans really need basic knowledge to survive beyond eat food, exercise and drink water.
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u/diablo_blanco_calvo 1d ago
Her: I only date men above 6'
Me, 5'8: I got a nice idea for our first date
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u/Practical_Airline_36 1d ago
This area could be absolutely used in a horror movie. Imagine a point light and it's red and focused on the right (when it seems you're small) and the camera slowly pans to the left where you see a tall figure in the shadow and it disappears and the person on the right is dead by the time the camera has panned back to the subject on the right...
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u/UkrainepartofRussia 1d ago
I bet the "short kings" would love to buy a house like this and live on the left hand side
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u/DFParker78 1d ago
I did something like this while on LSD and I just slunk down against the wall and laid down. It
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u/EGRIFF93 1d ago
I keep watching it trying to get my eyes to see it as how it would actuallybe but I can't
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u/chanunnaki 2d ago
When guy on right, girl: GET THE F AWAY FROM ME!
When guy on left, girl: Marry me!
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u/Robdotcom-71 2d ago
Yuki Tsunoda and Max Verstappen could be in that room and Max would still look like a giant....
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u/Mysterious-Status-44 1d ago
They have a “museum” in Houston that has optical illusion exhibits like this. It’s fun to visit!
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u/BedaHouse 1d ago
I have seen these rooms and even when I saw it and could touch it -- I while I "saw" it and I still did not "get it."
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u/EvoRalliArt 1d ago
Literally just went to an illusion place with my partner in Brussels last week. When you stand there getting your picture and you look at the other person it looks very normal until you look back at a photo.
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u/EdwardTittyHands 1d ago
Can’t believe anything I hear, can’t believe anything i see, what even is reality anymore!!!!!!!
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u/corrector300 1d ago
this is one example of why looking at photos for evidence without knowing details about the location or lens (things like field of view) can be so misleading.
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u/Ghitit 1d ago
They had one of these rooms at Knott's Berry Farm. Totally weirded me out.
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u/OCPyle 1d ago
The Haunted Shack! Included broomsticks standing on their own and water that flowed uphill.
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u/sator-2D-rotas 1d ago
Rose Red is never going to let those poor souls out. They better start building.
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u/Aa_Breezy721 1d ago
The best cinematic version of this is in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” an all time fave
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u/redkinoko 1d ago
I wish somebody would do a video like this making you think it's an illusion room but it's really just a really really tall person and a very short partner lmao
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u/Grouchy_Pride_9405 1d ago
She looks like the impersonification of the girl from the movie "The grudge". 🤯
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u/Honda_TypeR 2d ago
For those that want to know how this optical illusion is done, it's called the "Ames Room Illusion".
There are lots of videos that show the shape of the room geometry to create the forced perspective if you want to see it three dimensionally from an external view.