BOYI XIAO
肖博奕

Trick Optical Illusion

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This project explores the relationship between human distance and the perception of space. People's perception of space is often informed by changes in negative space. For example, in a fixed space. If people are spread out in the space, each person has a small range of movement and therefore people feel that the space is small. If people are concentrated at one point, there is a lot of free space left and therefore people feel that the space is large.

 

We enhance this illusion of space by linear language.

One person enters: the screen on the wall gets bigger, the lines get faster and the lines get thicker.
Two people enter: as the distance between them increases, the screen becomes smaller, the speed slower, the lines thinner and the space feels larger; vice versa.

Three people enter: the distance between each person and the sensor is controlled by 3 factors: size/thickness/speed.

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