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  • hmz guckt mich an bin ein elch

  • lol kuckt auf mich bin n hamster

  • Awesome Illusion....:)

  • I HATE THOSE SCREEMERS i nearly peed my pants

  • I present to you... God and jesus!

  • the problem with this version of the 'illusion' is that ricky and errol never appear to be in the same horizontal plane (as indicated by the checkerboard floor) so one always appears to be far far away while one is closer ruining the ames room effect.

  • there stairs idiots.

  • lolz.... Ricky and Errol... Rick roll xD

  • wow

  • I SAW THE STAIRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

  • @cat9854xdeadx Where? Where are the stairs? And why are you so impressed by this? Regards

  • @horselesssleigh at the left, look at the man... well if you can't see it....then nevermind :)

  • Has anyone been to Lagoon? L.A. GOON was the name of a WWIi Bomber. Lagoon may have been named for it.

  • the cieling is not slanted theres little stairs on thew floorr LOOK ahhaa, at there feet

  • In Portuguese from Brazil:

    O truque, neste quadro, é que o quarto é realmente muito mais profundo e mais alto no lado esquerdo e, assim, faz o cara deste lado parecer pequeno.

    Enquanto o cara do lado direito, por estar mais à frente e no lado menor do quarto (com forma trapezoidal), dá a impressão de ser enorme. Mas ambos apresentam o mesmo tamanho.

    O quarto foi construído, pela primeira vez em 1946, pelo oftalmologista norte-americano Adelbert Ames Jr.

    EntreMentes, Paulo Gurgel

  • Rick(y) (E)roll!

  • The floor is a steep slope, like the one in this vid: watch?v=hCV2Ba5wrcs

    .

    There are no steps. When you walk up a slope that is as severely inclined as the ones featured in Ames' rooms, you bend your knees similar to walking up steps.

  • AMES ROOM... ROCKS

  • the guy on the left is walking down stairs and on the left, up. when he walks between two, what i would call stairs, they are really just a bigger steps(or a ledge). they are acting like theyre on steps in some places. the camera angle prevents you from noticing this.

  • @willdav7 The ceiling slopes..

  • Wroooomm!...

  • The guy with the black hair and beard looks like an actor i've seen in a bunch of movies.

    Can't remember which !

  • this came out in the movie temple gradin

  • Its a trapezoidal room and the image of the room inside what were seeing now, is through a peephole. its that particular area that we see, that limits our binocular depth cues which makes the room look rectangular. because of this, 'shape constancy' remains intact while 'size constancy' becomes sacrificed. Thus we get this cool shit going where the room looks the same while the peeps walking right to left of the room appear to get bigger or smaller. and vice versa for left to right.

  • @BrotherTree1 well....the room not necessarily looks the same, but remains looking like a relatively normal evenly squared room.

  • @BrotherTree1 So in actual fact, the right side of the room is where the person is CLOSER, while the left side of the room is where the person is FURTHER AWAY. Thus, explains the bigger/smaller phenomena of the person in the Ames room.

  • I think this room is too big. It doesn't work as well as smaller ones.

  • is oatmeal part of the illusion?

  • @isaiahkanda Yes. Look at the bottom of the box on the left side. It's crooked.

  • Not only is the room distorted, but the other reason this works is because once we see it in 2D, all depth perception is lost. So we have no depth cues to help us figure out things are further, nearer or taller. Especially since the room slops gradually. If this were recorded with a 3D camera and put on a newer 3D TV it would never work. Instead we'd be able to see the depth... Unless it was a bad recording.

  • Why does everybody keep saying "Those are stairs!" Come on, people.

  • @TerranRich Because they are. The steps are only cleverly hidden by the checker pattern. They are also gradual, with the taller steps on the far left side where it's harder to see. Watch at 0:40 where the guy on the left steps down from one of the steps. It's obvious.

  • umm DUH...its staires u fuck tards

  • It's called perspective.

  • theres steps if u look closely

  • its not stairs, it just a smooth floor on a slant, and the tiles are painted a certain size larger the further back you go into the room to create the effect that the person is shrinking.

  • but what is with the weight controll cereal.

  • how many steps is this room made out of? im guessing every square is a step up.

  • i adgree

  • my brain cannot be fooled! coz the man as he goes far his face became blur.

  • What does that prove? Its just that he is getting out of focus. Its a real thing, its not edited to look like that

  • sure its not edited but even so, an object will not become blur at the rate 13 steps away with respect to the observer, I mean you can still clearly see a persons face 13 steps away from you as clear as the 2 steps close to you right? and yes as the object goes far It'll become blur but not at the rate as fast as this demo. Try this, focus at the first persons face as he travel and you'll know what i mean...

  • but that doesnt mean that this is faked or anything. The guy is pretty far away

  • i didn't say its fake I said my brain cannot be fooled which is actually a joke, you cant control your brain to convince itself that what you see is an optical illusion since birth our brain is programed base on what we see and how things used to be like straight ground or down pull of gravity.

  • Well yeah, the big thing about this is that your brain try's to rationalize it and it appears to be a regular room.

  • the tile on the floor are NOT right angled squares....

  • True! cause when they come near their feet look weirdly placed in respect to the tiles. Oh btw, the room is trapezium shaped. Explained here - ww_moillusions_ com/2007/03/ames-room-video-il­lusion. html

  • It's an illusion created in 1946 by Adelbert Ames Jr., from an idea by Hermann Helmholtz a German physician and physicist.

    I don't know how it's build, but think that it's just great!

  • They arnt steps, the whole room is constructed to look look smaller than it is.  Its an illusion

  • @stintzi look at the guy walking O_o there is steps so the left side is bigger than right

  • Maybe you are right

    You can only notice it if you really look

  • The room is in a shape of a trapezium. (inside it) the left side or more accurately the top left side of the room in this video is sloped downwards. Everything to the right side is at a larger scale.

  • Except there are no steps. Not how it works.

  • Oh fuck... well how does it work then?

  • No.. not steps.. you are getting tricked by the tiles which aren't even part of the illusion lmao

    It's an illusion called the ame's room. Learned about it in my perception course. The room is really distorted, but our view and past memories make us think its not, which is why we see it how we do.

  • Oh, ok! Then I know!

  • Lol, fooled.

  • it kind of looks like there are steps....stare and see when they walk towars the left side ...it seems like they going down some steps

  • more of a slope than steps if thats what u meant ^.^

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  • I Know This Trick. They Messed Up On The Moving Part, And The Jumping Part, And The Eating Part, And The Running.

  • hahaha thats ballin

  • oh just shut up and enjoy the illusion :P

  • This is a terrible representation. The individuals aren't supposed to appear moving away from or towards the camera, but move along the diagonal wall, and appear as if they're walking sideways. And we fall for it (believe they're walking sideways when they are also walking towards the camera) because we presume the walls are parallel (i.e. we think the diagonal wall is parallel to the wall with the "whole" (look it up in wiki) through which we observe this).

  • YOU ARE RIGHT! i am a psychologist studying perceptual principles and constancies. This is a horrible representation! They should do it sideways. It's not because they are moving further away andhence getting smaller but is because a person is supposed to maintain shape constancy and hence percieve the person to 'shrink' and 'grow' as they walk fro one side to the other side as they walk. But this video doesn't show this!

  • The room is a grotesque trapezoid. This is an optical illusion. There are no steps. But I suppose you have to have an IQ higher than average to figure that out.

  • and Im sure you have the higher IQ sir grotesque trapezoid?

    am i correct?

  • Sorry for coming across so rude I must have been having a bad day :) hopefully nobody was offended.

  • Its all good bro!

  • haha there are obviously no steps...

  • there is no step. the room is a grotesque trapezoid. the floor is tilted and so are the walls but when you look at this lay out in tunnel vision, everything appears to be perpendicular and parallel. the thing i think you saw that you mistaken for a step is the checkerboard flooring which is another optical illusion within itself. there is no floor though

  • What's the music? Sounds like it could have used on the soundtrack of Alice in Wonderland?

  • wtf they don't have to walk slowly...

  • this illusion is clearly explained on this vid ppl...

    watch?v=Ttd0YjXF0no

  • Stairs? No? Just watch some others movies where an explanation can be found of these rooms.

  • yhhh i notice that tooo omg thats scary

  • u guys r so stupid theres no stairs

  • How do the rooms do that?

  • The back wall is not straight. The left hand side is further than the right hand side. So when someone stands on the left they look smaller when in fact they are just further away. The ceiling is also slanted to give different height illusions. So the back of the room has a higher ceiling

  • one window is bigger than the other too, that's a major part of it. it seems like the back wall is rectangular, but it's trapezoidal because one window is bigger than the other.

  • True that. Also the tiles on the ground. Every shape in the room is distorted in one way or another.

    Its an awesome effect if you as me :p

  • @Ba3dadBoy Actually, there are steps in the floor, cleverly disguised by the checker pattern. This is what makes the ceiling appear taller on one side and shorter on the other.

  • @SkeksisRule wow man how on earth did you spot that?! I can barely tell even after you told me but you're right, the knees bend when they walk as if they're walking on steps.

  • @Ba3dadBoy I noticed that they were walking oddly, like they were stepping down. So I watched their feet and I was able to spot the stairs. It's hard to see, because the steps are gradual from left to right until there are no steps at all on the right side. Also, look at the bottom of the oatmeal(?) box on the far left side. One side is longer than the other. They had to do that because it would hang over the step and the space between the floor would be too obvious.

  • @Ba3dadBoy you do know the tiles are actually steps...

  • the ceiling is on a slant

  • MUST...

    BUY...

    OATMEAL...

  • doesnt work as good with them walking and having those stupid fucking oat meal shit in there. because you can guess how long a stride they take is, you can percieve how far they are actually walking.. if they are standing still the illusion woulod work a little better. they talk about this rom in my psychology text

  • dude that music belongs in a scary thing

    wtf thats freaky

  • I'll never look the same way at the oatmeal man again....

  • What's it got to do with porridge though?

  • cool .

  • the room appears to be square, but is in fact in the shape of a trapezoid

  • Yup it's cool, you can sort of tell it because it's not perfect, the slope of the ceiling and back wall is apparent upon close inspection.

  • i like it, very surreal :)

  • thats how lord of the rings made gandalf so big in the first few scenes

  • Dude they obviously got the camera so stoned!

  • You can see, in the last 30s or so of the clip, the man in the grey shirt, walk up a set of stairs on a seemingly horizontal surface. It is given away by how he raises his leg that he is stepping up onto something. He is actually in a small trough which enables him to walk towards the camera but remain 'small'. You can see from the shadow cast by the frame in the window hiding what appears to be the raised floor.

  • yea i been noticing that

  • That a nice trick they gave out I just notice that shadow in the backround also.

  • they used the same kind of design for "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind"

  • what's CGI ??

    lol i saw this at the science centre....

  • This is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal: the walls are slanted and the ceiling and floor are at an incline, and the right corner is much closer to the front-positioned observer than the left corner (or vice versa is also correct)

  • i read it in my big sis's psycology book XD

  • is that ricky jay?

  • stairs not illusoin!!

  • If there is stairs then that is what makes it an illusion dur dur dur.

  • omg i kno how they do it........ they get the walls BIG!!! and the windows and the tiles just MASSIVE and then it looks like an illusion

  • oh...

  • i saw that on national geographic its not a camera trick. its the design of the room

  • i think is the camera view

  • its tringular

  • at 9 secs it looks as in the guy in the greyish shirt is stepping down?

  • dude, if you cant see the secret, damn you're blind !

    those arent floors, those are stairs !

  • That's Ricky Jay, isn't it?

  • it was the shape of the room one end is big and one is small!!!

  • i totally agree x

  • its black magic!

  • the floor is all stairs

  • no it isn't, the feet of the guy in the blue shirt are pointing down, where the feet of the other guy is pointing up, so it isn't a stair, its a very steep floor and diagonal walls

  • im afraid pykenike is correct. but at least you had the right idea.

  • this room + mushrooms = ?!?1

  • this an optical illusion known as the ams room created by Adelbert Ames. It's a room with a traperziodal rear wall and sloping floor and ceiling. The left side is taller than the right.

  • this room + acid = awesome!

  • The bearded guy plays in Deadwood.

  • I AM ACID

  • its a slanted room, watch when the old man comes back toward the bigger guy. you can see him pulling his weight up as if you are walking up a hill

  • the only thing that is slanted is the back wall not the floor

  • I love quakers

  • Cool ^^

  • Only Errol Morris could make an interesting oatmeal commercial.

  • There aren't any steps. The camera is placed on the right side and the entire room is slanted. The picture on the back as well as the rest of the room is slanted to make it look straight with the camera.

  • Interesting viral commercial for Quaker Oats.

  • LMAO. I'll never eat oatmeal again.

    Ever.

  • i want to suck your dick for writing such an awesome comment

  • As a correction, they aren't actually steps. It's a smooth surface, it's just at an angle. Watch their feet just as they take a step.

    The camera is viewing from a very thin slit in the wall of the room, which from that angle makes the room look flat bottomed.

  • AHH! so many bricks!!!

  • <== HAS SHAT BRICKS!

  • You'll shit bricks!

  • hey thats the guy in all those david mamet films

  • the back left corner is far lower than the right front

    you can tell by the way their feet hit the ground that the skinny guy is walking downhill at the beginning and back uphill later on

    ames room ftw

    its just the camera that is turned the right way so you dont see the distortion

  • your a freakin moron the room isnt a rectangle one corner is farther out than it shud be so they appear different sizes

  • That is correct. Each row of tiles is actually a step. The whole room is a set of steps, lower on the left (far side) and higher on the right (near side). Or maybe its just the Quaker Oat guy messing with your mind...

  • i can see the steps on the floor.

  • This music is badass. Where is it from?

  • O_O

  • Very subtle Quaker advertisements. Did you notice?

  • I know about the Ames room, but the guy in the blue certainly cracks his head hard on the ceiling if there is no slant or stairs

  • SICK

  • steps

  • lol if it were steps, that doesnt explain the change in size relative the room...

    ames room... wikipedia it

  • Nope, no steps here. Do some reasearch

  • Yeah steps are clear, they could have done better with them

  • "done better"? You FUCKING ass. Its the camera that should of been moved.

    FUCK.

  • ames room noobs?

  • watch the extras in eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, shows exactly how the illusion is completed, rather simply.

  • I gotta admire how passionate you are. Wrong, but very passionate.

    If you look carefully at the man walking up, you'll clearly see that he walks across the lines where thr steps would be. The man walking down, is miming giant steps which is fooling your eye into thinking he's walking on stairs.

  • I only noticed the slope by looking at the guy in the blue's shoes, his toes are pointing down as they shake hands. Extremely well done, never seen this illusion done before.

  • lol actually there doesn't need to be a slope... this has been used in all sorts of video productions and even stage productions... it's how they made Gandalf in LOTR appear much larger and dwarves much smaller.

    Also, there isn't a slope, it's strictly the way the structure is built and painted and the objects are placed in the space.

  • WTF is with the Quaker oatmeal? Is this their attempt at a viral ad?

  • That's what I'm guessing. This is a seriously oldschool illusion and they could have shown it WITHOUT corporate advertising.

    NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NAUGHTY. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISMENT PRETENDING TO TEACH SCIENCE.

  • I don't agree. We should encourage companies to teach. Every Kid's show on the air is sponsored by someone.

  • They do it to further indoctrinate kids into corporate media and consumer culture. Isn't there any way for US to teach our kids without relying on corporations? Are we so lazy that we'll sell our children's souls over to