A New Version of the Beuchet Chair Illusion

Richard Wiseman

doi:10.1177/2041669516679168

A New Version of the Beuchet Chair Illusion

Richard Wiseman

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The Beuchet Chair is a powerful and highly popular optical illusion. The illusion involves two reasonably large pieces of apparatus: an oversized chair seat and four normal-sized chair legs. When properly arranged and viewed from a precise location, a person standing on the seat appears to be much smaller than they actually are. Although compelling, the illusion is relatively challenging and expensive to construct, requires a large amount of space to stage, and is not especially portable. Here, I outline a new version of the illusion that just involves a small piece of cardboard, a cloth, and a tripod. This new version costs almost nothing to create, is highly portable, and requires far less space than the original.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	i-Perception
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516679168
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

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perception
size
vision

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