Talk:Ames room

should be, except www.illusionworks.com doesn't seem to be a real hostname, and the 'kaw' professor has ceased his website at tu-dresden.de (university.de/i1/professorsnames)
 * http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/ames_room.html
 * http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/
 * www.illusionworks.com/html/ames_room.html

two invalid links :\

Why did someone remove the links to two museum?

Not good explanation
The explanation of the Ames room is not good. I read it, saw the illustration, but didn't understand EXACTLY the shape of the room or even how it looks. Maybe a picture showing the point of view of the observer, with the appearent differnce of size between the two people CLEARLY VISIBLE, could help a lot.

Needs new illustration. The video and the drawing shows confusion to the viewer rather than explaining the actual position vs. apparent position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.212.253.129 (talk) 17:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Amesroom.jpg
Image:Amesroom.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 17:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Amesroom.jpg
Image:Amesroom.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot 04:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Examples
In the DVD extras section of the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," an Ames room is clearly shown being used to make Jim Carrey's character appear to be smaller than he actually is, for a scene where he is supposedly reliving a memory from his early childhood. The "growing and shrinking" effect is pronounced when people walk around the room during this DVD extra scene.

Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles
The first thing I noticed about this room shape is that its horizontal dimensions correspond quite well with the unusual dimensions of Van Gogh's trapezoidal Bedroom in Arles. That painting, in turn, is sometimes mentioned among the precursors of cubism, oftentimes without acknowledging the visual distortions caused by the trapezoidal shape. It might take me years to find examples for the previous sentence, as they are over there in a pile of these doorstops we used to call books, but I'll be back. It is an imperfect example, but it appears to be a serendipitous illusion of the same family, with potentially broad application to art history. Sofa King (talk) 13:37, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Ames room. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20060509023020/http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu:80/teaching/switkes/COSMOS/VISION/WWW_01/images/16Jul01p05_web.jpg to http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/teaching/switkes/COSMOS/VISION/WWW_01/images/16Jul01p05_web.jpg

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 00:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Needs new video
I have no idea why someone would make a video to illustrate this phenomenon, but then decide the person's face needs to be blurred out. This bad blurring of the person's head is very distracting and greatly detracts from illustrating the effect. Rehcsif (talk) 17:02, 12 March 2022 (UTC)