Ames' Window

[krokodayl]

mind fucked!!



[blahblahblahblah5511]

I can make it spin both ways!

[ErichoTTA]

Defied reality again, huh?

[sanvincent666]

if you just focus enough you will see that it spins clockwise and that the pipe does the same

[yinyangcali]

HOW...........................­...........

[ZZJohnDyerZZ]

i need to mop my brain off the keyboard

[manbearpig900]

Someone call the police, My brain was just raped.

[pimpdadyhasker]

After watching this for 10 minutes, I finally beat my brain and actually saw the true movement. It's really hard but really rewarding.

[marmar3291]

@pimpdadyhasker you didn't beat your brain, your brain beat the illusion.

[mrsanMan]

It's quite astounding really.

[AmaraKoreda]

Fucking shit. This thing messed up my head

[7895431243]

Hint about what`s heppening here:

That window is moving only in 1 direction!

[alan850627]

@7895431243 you can kindof see it with the shadow

[snwboarderdd]

can some one tell me were to get one or how to make one

[derman077]

omg ive been loling uncontrollably for almost a minute now. i am so building one asap

[Knowwon249]

I'm amazed that people come up with brain tricks like this

[chrenBOPavich]

LSD is way better than this, you should all just drop acid.

[matthew1722]

@chrenBOPavich LSD is for fags. You must be some sort of fag.

[didinultien]

@matthew1722 LSD isn't for fags, it's for everyone to enjoy, except for the ignorant people. And @chrenBOPavich it's not "better" than this, it's just different.

[matthew1722]

@didinultien My comment was purely sarcastic. I was messing with @chrenBOPavich.

[ventHARAS]

@chrenBOPavich kkid

[abdishtar]

That made my brain get confused and stuff.

[Sogwa]

This is another brain fuck just like that acid melting ur brain hollow face illusion. Enough to give a peaceful brain nightmares! ;D

[dinmagic]

I had to hit the replay button like three times to actually see the dimension and follow the rotation of the object.

[Philkid3]

Took me a few seconds but I'm finally able to see what's really going on.

[powertube5671]

I saw this demonstration about 50 years ago in Junior High School in a film called "Gateways to The Mind" featuring Dr. Frank Baxter.

Excerpts of this film can be found here on YouTube, but I haven't found the clip of this demo as seen on the film. They put some spooky music to it to make it seem all the more mystical.

[lpenrike]

my eyes r fucked up O_o lol XD

[visceralchemistry]

This video makes me slightly nauseous.

[Sogwa]

@visceralchemistry

Me too l think.

[cradlerock19]

this guy has a great explanation and the guy who came up with this is a genius

[anko8aug]

(( (()) (()) ][_!

[Kurairu]

I have to fight my brain to see this for what it actually is. And even then I still see it reverse directions sometimes x.x

I love this illusion!

[PenguinJockey13]

I'm not sure I'm seeing it properly. The only unusual thing I could see was the dowel in the middle rotating through the window, but even then I can't be sure that it's not just seeming to rotate through and actually just swiveling back and forrth.

[PenguinJockey13]

Ok, after watching it a second time my visual perception adjusted and I can see the actual dimension and follow the rotation of the window. Interesting trick.

[Stephen9233]

I can't believe this video was stolen by Liquid Generation and they put a screamer in it!

[5L1M5H4DE]

woah

[Killdozer6006]

Did it died?

[DARKnDODGY]

head fuck maan...

[idioticscheme666]

Uhmmm...I'm actually a visual kind of person, I would have appreciated if you moved your camera and showed us how it worked.

[lulupaloozatv]

He explains it clearly. It's not a rectangular window. It's angled. Look closely. COOL!!!

[MaikUniversum]

I say it FAKE

[TheCheezWizz]

are you usually this retarded?

[MaikUniversum]

are you still beating your mom ?

[TheCheezWizz]

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

[MaikUniversum]

Cheers.

[KrasnickayaM]

Да, пришлось поломать глаза, пока сообразила, как это работает, но всё же стереотипы были сломлены, УРА!

[Sully800]

If you made a child watch stuff like this and the Ames room and other illusions throughout childhood, I bet a spinning rectangle would confuse them greatly.

This is awesome.

[Maxxorz12]

Da Fuck?

[cl0ckt0wer]

I <3 my brain

[thinkinghurtzzz]

i was momentarily confused.

still am actually. WOW.

[tdawgmark3]

This looks photoshopped.

[GarlicPepper]

did my eyes die?

[didinultien]

@GarlicPepper no, it's all in your brain. the brain tries to transform that what your eyes see into something that makes sense..it just happens to fail :P

[MyNameISBenOrme]

Wtf? I'm ready to kill myself....no-emo.

[luchamini]

My brain has no idea what I just watched.

[404040wolf]

Seen this a long time ago.. but it's still trippy

[TheThomaswastaken]

It took me a few seconds to start seeing the optical illusion. I just saw it as it actually is until I tried not to focus my attention on what I had already seen.

[essial]

Took a few times. It makes more sense if you hide the stick part with your hand and watch it spin. The "AHAH" moment is when I discovered the "shadows" on the "frame" implied a thick window, but when it rotated to the side it was paper thin. Ontop of that, the "window" is not a rectangle, but instead bigger on one side. The point in which it "stops" is when it's directly facing the camera. Just try to "ignore" the shadows and the rotation makes sense!

[essial]

Also note that this "trick" can only be done as a video. If you saw this with 3D vision (with your eyes, in person), your brain would be able to figure out the shape even with the shadows. But since this is a 2D video, your brain has to "make up" the 3rd dimension using visual cues (in this case, the shadows), which is what the artists uses to cause it to miscalculate.

[noidsh]

This optical illusion was originally created in 1951. It looks the same in person as on the screen.

[iforgotaboutit]

I shat bricks.

[Jethelred]

It's pretty easy to make out when it's aligned with the camera angle. It looks to be more convex on one side and more concave on the other, and may have a slight textural variation as well. The shadows do give it away.

[gregcarson]

watch the shadow and the base of the object it helps you to understand it better.

it's just an optical illusion based on the dimensions and scaling of the window.

[darkshdwstlkr]

my brain almost shitted itself because of this.

[Britzy]

Oh god, i just accidentally my brain..

[SinfulElation]

All of it?!

[dibtio]

That is INSANE.

[ArcCollie]

Holy Christ

I

What D:

[Klebsiella33]

My head just exploded trying to make sense of this.

[zerohtense]

wow that's creepy

genius D:

[ellamoosem]

Wtf? o.o

[alien8ted1]

wow even though i cant understand his explanations

i stumbled dis btw

[wollam11]

I don't understand what I just watched ...

[Dannywills666]

remarkable

[Ashecroft7]

my head hurts xD

[xoranneke]

noob

[Ashecroft7]

I accidentally your comment

[roadkillskate]

WTF what just F*****g happened

[AwesomelyAwsome]

Man thats hard to look at.

[19aalbertpereramw]

niceeee ....

[freshlyshowered]

helps understanding it if you know its always spinning in the same direction and not alternating like it seems to be

[Adeptmind]

I didnt see it going both directions until i read someone say it was only going in 1 direction... wierd.. now i can see it either way i want.. strange

[Synius44]

That happened to me.

D8

[Shorosky]

Si... bueno, un lado es más grande que el otro.

[elliotuk999]

i cant work out wtf is happening there :O

[tibnok]

killerofhell1: NO FAKE! Try look at it at distance in small video and u see that it real.. but with full screen and sclose look its f- amazing!!! cool cool cool

[killerofhell1]

lol its now real its made by computer, its sooo easy

[jleack]

Insane. I can't tell what's going on.

[weikath9]

omg

[FonkayMonkay66]

dude, this is just Wow

[nodnodwinkwinkV]

this gave me nausea...

amazing tho, going to try and make one :)

[Orangeflava]

How does that work? i'm confuzzled!!

[sjg2]

don full get it

[jazltalz]

Wow

[hamzeeco]

i fucking love how the guy talks ,,, the professor who used to give us physics courses in college used to talk like that,,,,

[tutshorties]

oh i get it

[WuvableKel]

sweet

[nic0dem8D]

i think my brain explodededed

[edaciousforit]

god....they could've atleast taken the camera and given us a top-down view to help us understand better

But yeah, it's remarkable.

[NamelessGiraffe]

Why is everyone talking about posessive nouns?

[myfaceispurple]

cuz of the title

[experttease]

James: singular non-posessive.

James'/James's (through common use): singular posessive.

Jameses: plural.

Director's: singular posessive.

Directors: plural.

Directors': plural posessive.

[raghu22]

whoa!

[lucypop861]

...er... the film? The film is brilliant. My brain hurts.

From what I bothered to read about the comments about an apostrophe that have overtaken, I surmise thus: it makes no dfference if a name ends with S. For example, it would be James's coat or Claus's house.

The James family. The Brown family.

The Jameses. The Browns.

James and his giant peach would be James's peach. Or Jim's peach. Otherwise, it's like saying Jim peach or Jim coat. It's Jim's coat. And so on. It's easy, really...

[popkkskall]

Thanks, QI Elves.

[EBursey]

Excellent.

[istarnor]

I accidentally my brain.

[hatfactory]

great internet catchphrase. very funny. 5

[EGomezPatrol]

My mind comprehended it.

[soliloqvi]

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[hvyhitter]

Zomg WTH

[lllAnonlll]

We need an instructable... I want one.

[fugbo]

Sorry, I'm one of the older generation and don't understand the nuances of modern colloquiolisms. Is "sucks dick" good or bad?

[johnkeye]

The comment that this comment is a reply to has been tagged LOL ROFL LMAO LOLLERCOPTER LOLOCAUST.

Thank you, you made my evening brighter.

[dilan728]

@ fugbo

thats pretty bad.

[jakswa]

wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­fffffffff

[bwoark]

Ah, the reddit grammar nazis are here

[IRUSIGreenChief]

Halt! Grammarzeit!

[reject2007]

Theres my stick,sorry Mr. Ames.

[sh1verr]

my head asplode

[Gavither]

Brilliant.

[bfrankey]

I see it!

[SarahxJane]

What the fuck!?

My brain.

[lingwitt]

The correct spelling is always "Ames's"; unfortunately, the Christians fucked it up with their "Jesus'", which is totally incorrect. It should be written "Jesus's".

[ottawatechy]

You don't use the trailing s if the word ends with s. Thus it would technically be Ames' or Jesus'.

[nachtbrand]

Actually, there is no firm rule. All that matters is consistency. In his book Elements of Style William Strunk recommends adding the possessive modifier, rather than merely an apostrophe as you suggest, to nouns and proper nouns ending in an "s" where the result is not overly clumsy or awkward. To assert that there is a rule and that this must "technically" be spelled one way or other is ill-informed.

[lingwitt]

I think you misread? I did recommended adding the possessive modifier, rather than merely an apostrophe.

Also, I assert that my rule is proper and that people who don't follow it are stupid and ugly.

[nachtbrand]

@lingwitt: I was responding to ottawatechy's comment, where he said, "You don't use the trailing s if the word ends with s. Thus it would technically be Ames' or Jesus'."

[nachtbrand]

@lingwitt (again): I just realized that I couldn't see your comment because of its rating. In fact, I wholly agree with you that the best spelling is Ames's, although I disagree that the rule is firm. Also, there are notable exceptions, such as Mr. Chamberlains's, where the result is simply awkward.

[krupple]

My name is James and if I want to put an apostrophe at the end, the correct way to type it is James' not James's

[soundbyter1234567890]

@krupple Sorry, you're wrong. I appreciate it's your name and everything but James' would only be right if you were referring to more than one object, for example a family of people called James. A good way of remembering it is "The director's car is parked in the directors' car park"

[sfocata]

Apostrophe usage with proper names ending in "s" goes with pronunciation. You'd say "this is Jameses book" not "this is James book", so the correct spelling is James's

[tomwitcomb]

you're completely wrong. Any noun ending in 's' to which a possessive apostrophe is applied negates the use of a second 's'

[sirox2007]

Sorry - that's not true. Sometimes when a possessive apostrophe is added a second 's' is added to indicate how it is usually said. :)

[mawgen]

stop arguing, google and see! YOU are wrong tomwitcomb ;)

[sfocata]

No, I'm not wrong. Wikipedia: "A widely accepted practice is to follow whichever spoken form is judged better: the boss's shoes, Mrs Jones' hat (or Mrs Jones's hat, if that spoken form is preferred)". Fowler: "Add 's to names that end in s when you would pronounce them with an extra s in speech".

[Niiauyr]

No, my love. You are not Jesus and you are not from the classics.

[lingwitt]

However, I personally don't find "Mr. Chamberlains's" to be awkward.

[trippedbreaker]

If the person who produces this video intends to leave us confused despite the description, he's done a good job.

If he really wanted to show how an Ames window works so people can understand it clearly, all he needed to do was move the camera around to show it from different angles as it rotates.

[sbmillionair]

why does my brain fail me? !!!!

[spookypen]

Brain rape

[evreniz]

lol @ brain rape.

definitely.

[halogirl916]

my brain just died, too bad i'm not even at school yet D:

[Tenetri]

theres hundreds if tricks like that, all of them equally trippy

Reminds me of a realllllllly old Bill Nye video of something similar

[Neuroelectronic]

It's not that hard to comprehend if you just let your brain override your perception.

This is a great example of our brain perceiving reality while our senses cannot. It proves there is more to reality then we are seeing.

[njkita11]

NEVER DIVIDE BY ZERO!

[freefall88]

He says it in the video, right? One side is much broader than the other side, it fucks up the perspective...

Not that I can fully comprehend it.... in fact, I still don't get it at all

[Jimdapredator2]

NEVER DIVIDE BY ZERO

[amnesiai]

that is fucking awesome

[cowluver979]

uhhhhhh

is the answer melon?

[magicguy5]

my brain it BURNSSS!!! how...?

[loneroad]

Ahh! The window... Doesn't rotate entirely!

The stick... Moves through the window?

BRAIN NO WORKY.

[hamstaman]

The window rotates entirely with the stick in it, the window itself is just scaled in a bizarre way that gives it the illusion of rotating backward half the time.

[Maturkus]

Wait... But... How the?

Ok, hands down, by far the most bizarre thing I've seen this year... How the?... nah, where's the point in asking... It wouldn't be as cool if I knew the cool things that are to know about it...

[raptor17d]

i think my brain just imploded

[jmac530]

can they show us other angles of the illusion to show the true shape of it?

awsome illusion though

[systemofaramo293]

there's one in mexico city,,

i looked for an hour,,

[member353]

fucden crazy

[JamesLimborg]

Unfortunately... I don't understand. But apparently it's a very cool thing.

[Fastzombie42]

That was a confusing experience.

[ilovegoth]

that's kewl.

[mlade77]

I am fooled again! Darn it!! :)

[hotbunz1614]

thats awesome

[TheKahael]

Sweet