How perception works: why what you see is your brain's best guess
Depth in a flat picture: why two identical table tops look different
Two table tops in a drawing: one long and thin, one almost square. Measure them, and they are the same. How does a flat picture fool you so well?
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Miva holds up her drawing of two tables. Rono, who builds them, needs one look: the left top is long and thin, the right one almost square.
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Look at them yourself. The two tops are the same shape and the same size: one is the other, turned. Can you see it?
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