This was mind-blowing (and amazing!) and provided a fantastically fun science interlude for my kids. I can't wait for season 4! And thank you for the reminder that perception isn't just about our physical world, but also about what we can assume about reality in human action and relations -- I always need more reminders.
Thank you for another quirky excursion around your brain!
There's an Ames room that you can wander around in the Cité des sciences in the Parc de La Villette in Paris, very popular with camera-wielding visitors. It has a different construction, as illustrated on this page:
The "European-style Ames room" has two depths, rather than a sloping back wall, which presumably means that characters can move around more within their half without destroying the illusion?
So how do [young] scientists actually get started in the real world? Oh lordy. You might as well ask What does a cloud look like?
Young Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a Camelus dromedarius?
Aged Polonius: By th' mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed.
Young Hamlet: Methinks it is like a Mustela lutreola
Polonious: It is backed like a weasel.
Young Hamlet: Or like a Balaenoptera musculus
Polonious: Very like a whale
This was mind-blowing (and amazing!) and provided a fantastically fun science interlude for my kids. I can't wait for season 4! And thank you for the reminder that perception isn't just about our physical world, but also about what we can assume about reality in human action and relations -- I always need more reminders.
Thank you for another quirky excursion around your brain!
There's an Ames room that you can wander around in the Cité des sciences in the Parc de La Villette in Paris, very popular with camera-wielding visitors. It has a different construction, as illustrated on this page:
http://figuresambigues.free.fr/ArticlesTheorie/chambre-d'ames-1.html#axzz7IJeTZEVg
The "European-style Ames room" has two depths, rather than a sloping back wall, which presumably means that characters can move around more within their half without destroying the illusion?
Loved this article. Got completely absorbed into it.