How the Ames Room Warps Depth

The Ames Room is a visual illusion that changes how people judge depth and size. It is built to show how the brain uses assumptions to recover three-dimensional space from a two-dimensional image on the retina.

The retina is the light-sensitive tissue inside the human eye. Light from objects in t...

Visual illusions often exploit the fact that a person receives input from both eyes to see the world in three dimensions.

For example, if someone is talking to a friend through their open apartment door, they?ll discern this individual as standing a few steps in front of the hallway wall. This perception is due, in part, to the fact that t...