One fine Summer's day, amino finds himself walking round Covent Garden. The birds are tweeting, the tourists are smiling and all is well.
amino's eyes: What is this we see before us. Street performers! How
quaint.There's a statue person, a magician and someone in whife face pa.....
amino's brain: Argh! mime! Hands, throw shopping at it.
amino's hands: Are you sure? We had to hand over the credit card quite a few
times to get these bags.
amino's brain: THROW!
It's at this point that the mime is covered in a thin veneer of my newly purchased possessions and I am wondering if white face paint is an advantage in an urban steeplechase.
Through this small insight into the workings of my psyche, I think you'll agree that the brain needs some punishment via the medium of optical illusion.
The video shows the effects of an Ames Room. If anyone out there has a spare garage, building an Ames room will bring you wealth and the admiration of beautiful women. Here's a picture to get your construction started (via).
If the magic size changing people haven't befudulated the little grey cells yet then how about some 4-dimensional fun with Tesseracts.
Trying to put it simply, the tesseract is to the cube what the cube is to the square.
So what is this 4th dimension that makes the shape so special? Well according to Olaf Holt (I have no idea who he is but he seems to know about geometry):
Well. . . any other direction! That is, to visualize the tesseract, there doesn't need to be a physical analogue of the fourth dimension. All you need is your imaginationThanks Olaf, I think.
His page is quite an interesting read if you want to go some way to understanding how to make a tesseract.
Another good source of information is the Wikipedia article, however it does go into some mathematical depth.
I hope that this information has helped and through a strict regime of geometric punishments, you too will be able to cut down on your mime abuse.
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