Ames Room The Ames room is an optical illusion where as one object at the end of the room appears to be small while the second object appears to be bigger than the first object. However; in reality the back wall of the room is tilted and tricks the naked eye to make people assume that the entire room is the same size and that nothing is wrong with the way the area looks. The Ames room is a deformed trapezoidal room; however, the strange thing is that when someone takes a look inside the room, the walls look parallel and everything seems to be fine. The reason to why society views the room to be ordinary is because the brain has a built-in assumption that the walls of rooms are usually parallel and it is something everyone has grown up with throughout our whole lives. People …show more content…
Many explanations to why people tend to not see the change that occurred in the concept of the room would be because growing up, according to our experience and knowledge with living and looking inside of houses, that rooms are perfectly parallel so assumptions are therefore made that just because we have seen rooms before, means automatically that the Ames room is also parallel. Our perspective in one corner of the Ames room gives us a reason to believe that a figure is smaller than the second figure in the other corner of the room but even thought people or figures cannot logically get taller instantly, our brain makes that assumption based on the past events we have encountered with being in rooms and such etc. The room is completely distorted and there are no right angles. The windows or decorations in the room are changed to make our perception much stronger to make us believe that the room is not distorted and that the figures did get bigger when in reality they did not. The Ames room is executed as a perfect optical illusion for the reason that is uses: distance, depth, and varying sizes to be playing games with our brains and make us think one way rather than the other