Ames Giant House
Kids' Zone · Interactive
- DimensionsSubject to on-site plan
- PresentationInteractive
- PricingQuoted by manufacture spec
Ames Giant House is a hands-on, mechanical & electromechanical interactive exhibit manufactured by Hefei Panda for science centers, children’s museums, discovery centers, STEM learning centers and family entertainment centers. Engineered for durable, robust, low-maintenance, high-traffic gallery installation, it turns abstract scientific concepts into direct, interactive visitor exploration. Hefei Panda is a global exhibit manufacturer exporting hands-on science displays to 50+ countries, with in-house engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning.
Exhibit Summary
Ames Giant House is a Interactive interactive exhibit in the Kids' Zone category, designed for science centers, children’s museums, discovery centers, STEM learning centers and family entertainment centers. Built as a hands-on, mechanical & electromechanical display, it turns an abstract scientific concept into direct, interactive visitor exploration, and is engineered for durable, low-maintenance, high-traffic gallery use.
Scientific Principle
Through the immersive hands-on experience of the displays, you can experience the magic of optical illusions and grasp that optical illusions are when people watch objects. Due to the interference of shape, light and color of objects, coupled with people's physiological and psychological reasons, they misrecognize objects, which will produce judgmental visual errors that are inconsistent with reality. At the same time stimulate their curiosity and spirit of exploration.
Operation
The Ames Room is an application of the "constant size illusion". In this room, if two people of exactly the same height stand on the left and right sides of the room, there will be an illusion of a significant height difference. The display is set up as an Ames Giant House. The children cooperated with each other. Several children stood in different places in the room and observed the children in the house from specific windows. Watch the changes in height and shape of your friends indoors and outdoors, and think about the principles. The Ames Room creates a constant illusion of size, with the pictorial background providing scale of depth. If you remove the background, the image will lose its three-dimensionality and there will be no illusion, or if there is, it will be very weak. The wrong background will provide the wrong scale and lead to misunderstandings. The Ames Room provides a false backdrop. In fact, the wall behind is not parallel to the observer, but slanted. The floor conceals this inclination. The people are not one big and one small, but one far away and one close.
Export-Ready Features
- Durable, robust construction for high-traffic gallery environments
- Low-maintenance electromechanical design with reliable, safe components
- Custom sizing, theming & multilingual labeling available
- OEM & turnkey exhibit solutions with full project management
- Overseas shipping, export documentation & on-site installation supported
- Shipped to science centers and museums in 50+ countries