From: dstamp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng)
Subject: Re: APPS: Game Design
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 14:42:35 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Mar11.144235.11181@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo



rwzobel@eos.ncsu.edu (RICHARD W ZOBEL) writes:

>The actual case you described of the room becoming bigger than the
>building that encloses it, sounds more like a scale modification
>than a physical paradox. Suppose ...

Actually a fair amount of inside/outside rescaling is probably
OK from a psychological viewpoint anyway.  When you look at a 
building from the outside, you see it in relation to surrounding
structures.  On the inside, different referents are used so
the rooms looks larger.  More detail and contents in the room
help too.  How much is the distortion? Probably about 2:1

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