You guys are wonderful. My kids were just glued watching this one in awe! Bless you both, D and R.

@CuriosityShow

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure - very kind of you - Rob

This and the Ames window always made my brain hurt. I love it.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that Ames window really blows my mind because even though your brain KNOWS how it's done it still gets interpreted the wrong way, especially when the ruler gets placed in the center: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dp-KsauDccS9f5M.html This one is really freaky!

As a kid i used to love there shows :)

In Vancouver's Science World there was an ames room you could walk into, I think I also remember the floor being slightly distorted too to further increase the effect. Never remembered the name of the illusion but i'll never forget that room

is this like the 4th or 5th vid with Ames content here?!.. never fails to impress!

The illusion is brilliant!

An American children's show somewhat like Curiosity Show is 3-2-1 Contact. It started in 1980, was made by the Children's Television Workshop (the group that made Sesame Street), and aired on PBS throughout the '80s and in the early '90s. Here's part of an episode from 1980, which discusses the Ames room: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pmp8mcSidN3SmJc.html Enjoy one of my favorite nonfiction children's television series!

Had a hard time understanding this until I realized it's a simple perspective issue with a distorted backdrop to make it work.

Did your show built that Ames room, or was it someone else's?

@CuriosityShow

2 жыл бұрын

Built by our props man - Rob

Hi! You've got a new subscríber. Would you make a video on Samuel van Hoogstraten' s perspective box? He used Anamorphosis for this. The one at rhe National Gallery, London. Thanks ever so much.

@cygil1

6 ай бұрын

This is archive content from the 1980s. They are long retired and not making new content any more.But it's cute you think this is an active channel, in a way, Curiosity Show was youtube before youtube.

This film has several interesting additions about the Ames window and the Ames room: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZNp2dKJqKbJqdo.html

Hard to believe this effect is only 40 years old.

@garrysekelli6776

2 жыл бұрын

Since the video is also 40 years old it makes it even more astounding.

@ellessandraramsay1841

2 жыл бұрын

Probably close to 80 years now 😀

Try it on your Amesh friends.

Just think, that cat is dead now :(

@boomstand2872

2 жыл бұрын

so is the mouse

@steelonius

2 жыл бұрын

Probably some of the cat's offspring too.

Peter Jackson watched these guys, I just know it. Hehe

but why is not explained

@ikarikid

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a trick called Forced Perspective. Because the camera is only one eye, the room registers as normal at that angle, making whoever is further away from the camera appear smaller. You see it all the time in movies: it was one of the tricks used in the LOTR films to present the characters’ varying sizes (the other main trick was usage of height doubles, with many sets built at varying sizes)

@electronwave4551

7 ай бұрын

Your brain does not realize that this room is an Ames room. It is tricked into believing it is an ordinary rectangular room (because of the trick shapes of the walls and windows). Because of this belief, your mind thinks: "If a person is moving left to right along the back wall of a rectangular room, and they appear to get larger in size, this mean the person is magically growing in size because the back wall is a constant distance from me and so is the person moving along it." But what really is happening is this: When a person moves left to right along the back wall of an Ames room, they appear to get larger in size because the back wall is getting closer to me and so is the person moving along it.

Amazeballs