KOKTAVÁ Marie

Ames´s Illusions

Last year, as usual, we participated in the Czech European Researchers´ Night at Mendelu. Since the theme was “With all the senses”, as geometers we focused on vision. We created two of Adelbert Ames Jr.´s most famous illusions, namely the Ames Room and the Ames Window. In this paper we will describe how these illusions work and how we recreated them.