In reality, they are photographs of 1:6 scale dioramas by St. Art designers Theo Tveters and Lars Marcus Vedeler, from the Skrekkgle group, created the enormous 50-cent euro coin from painted and lacquered wood at a 20:1 scale.Īt first sight, they look like real-life scenes from the television show Hoarders, precleanup. This remarkable illusion combines tilt-shift photography-in which the photographer uses selective focus and a special lens or tilted shot angle to make regular objects look toy-sized-with the strategic placement of a giant coin. Try them out for size!ĭo you see tiny objects photographed with a macro lens? Look again. In this article, we present a collection of illusions that will expand your horizons and shrink your confidence in what is real. Recent research shows that spiders appear larger to people who suffer from arachnophobia than to those who are unafraid of bugs and that men holding weapons seem taller and stronger than men who are holding tools. Social and psychological context also causes us to misperceive size. The same medium-sized circle will appear smaller when surrounded by large circles and bigger when surrounded by tiny ones, a phenomenon discovered by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus.
Absolute size is meaningless to our brain: we gauge size by context. As we cast a neuroscientific light on this classic book, it seems clear to us that Swift, a satirist, essayist and poet, knew a few things about the mind, too. "Judge me by my size, do you? Size matters not." - Yoda, Jedi masterĪS BOTH the midget in the country of Brobdingnag and the giant on the island of Lilliput, Lemuel Gulliver-the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels-experienced firsthand that size is relative.
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