Episode from “Glumert.”
Having tea in a tilted room
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:June 11, 2010
- Post category:Entertainment / Whimsy
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
The video reminds me of an attraction that was in the Opryland theme park years a go, called the "Angle Inn".
In the "Angle Inn" visitors could watch a live routine in a tilted room from a gallery along the uphill side of the room. The effect was enhanced by having the gallery tilted at a steeper angle than the room below. The change in angle, combined with the visual cues in the angled room gave the illusion that the room below the gallery was closer to level than it actually was.
A similar illusion exists in nature. Gravity hills are stretches of of roads where visual cues trick a casual observer into thinking an uphill grade is sloping downward. Some are promoted as minor tourist attractions, sometimes called Spook Hills, Magnetic Hills, or Mystery Hills.
I've experienced that effect of an uphill looking like a downhill. I thought it was just me. I didn't know there was a name for it.