What Is the Ames Illusion? - Instant Egghead #23

Scientific American · 754K views · 2012 · 2:55

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Everyday physics & science demosother

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Explains the Ames room illusion and how it manipulates human perception of size and distance.

Linked by 7 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including centrum.cz, mymodernmet.com, anopticalillusion.com, cascadiapoeticslab.org, futuredesigners.nz.