at Somerset House.
But, this was fun, so, because it's a short post, I thought I would do it now.
A small room, and you could either enter it with another person so that you could pose and see the contrast, or look through the window. We looked, marvelled and took photographs.
And, then, they changed places. Amazing.
We were not told how this is achieved, so I had to look it up.
A relativity room is inded inspired by Escher's impossible architecture, and it achieves its mind-bending illusion by using forced perspective.
The physics and architecture of the trick rely on a few specific design elements; the room is built with a steep gradient, so that the floor is skewd, it slopes upward; the ceiling is skewed too, sloping downwards so that when you walk from the 'low' side to the 'high' side of the room, you are actually walking closer to the ceiling. Furthermore, there is the checkerboard trick: the floor tiles are painted in a distorted grid: the grid gets smaller toward the far corner to reinforce the false sense of distance and make you believe you are further away.
Wonderful.
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