cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24536609
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Optical illusions are wild.
Close one eye, tilt your phone back, and look at the screen from the charging hole!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24536609
show transcript
Optical illusions are wild.
Close one eye, tilt your phone back, and look at the screen from the charging hole!
“Have a link?” Ohh I do! I love these Ames Room
How fun is this?! YouTube Live Action Ames Room
As an aside: I’m gonna say the simple “perspective shifted so far that it’s unrecognizable to the untrained eye” counts as an illusion, because the first time I saw one, I was indeed tricked.
This is the first internet argument I have ever been involved in.
Ok those rooms are certainly illusions. My mind was tricked and even after reading how they work I still cannot quite see how when I watch the video. A perfect illusion.
I still wouldn’t call the post for this thread an illusion as there is no trick, just pure perspective. You simply tilt your phone, you see what is happening, and you understand it because its basic physics you were taught in elementary.
This is like the amateur magician. A trickster that knows a few party tricks but is so bad at executing them they are no illusionist. But a master magician uses simple things like perspective and skill to create tricks that are such great illusions that the scientific mind cannot quite work out what has really just happened even though they know it’s a trick. This post is the amateur magician, the Ames room is the master. Both use perspective but in different ways on different levels.