SENSORY PERCEPTION
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| All exhibits on this page, except the two Ames
Room exhibits, were designed and built for the St. Louis Science Center, in St.
Louis, Missouri by Levy Design Studios in Portland, Oregon USA. The
small Ames
Room exhibit was done for the Science Center in Lahore, Pakistan, and
the large for the St. Louis Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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| COMING OR GOING - An illusion of motion is
the result when staring at these spinning spirals - an almost hypnotic
experience... |
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| SHIMMERING GRID - The eyes play tricks on
us as we stare at these grids. |
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| HEAD ON A PLATTER - In this classic
illusion, the head of the person floats in mid air. |
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| COLORS - A variety of color experiments
and illusions are part of this section of the exhibition. |
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| SMELL AND TASTE - Here a visitor is
challenged to identify smells or tastes inside hidden containers. |
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| AMES ROOM - This original sensory
illusion demonstration was developed by Adelbert Ames at Princeton
University between 1945-1955. When looking inside the distorted room and
moving some of the components with the knob, the shapes and sizes take
on strange realities. |
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| FULL SIZED AMES ROOM - Although the child is much
shorter than the adult, he looks bigger in this full size Ames Room as a
result of the distorted construction of the room where one side is half
of the other. |