She looks like a giant brushing against the ceiling. He is barely a dwarf beside her. But they switch places, and the trick is completely reversed. The room did not change. Neither did they. It all lies in how the room was built to fool your eye from a single angle.
The Ames illusion has existed since 1946, and although it began as an artistic experiment, it has also been used in major films such as “The Lord of the Rings”, for the distinctive size of the hobbits, or in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”.
Even so, today its use has been reduced to an optical illusion for scientific purposes, and everyone can experience it in various museums around the world.
