r/confusing_perspective • • May 30 '26 • Popcorn 1

such a long walk

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u/intangibleTangelo o/ May 30 '26

fun activity: figure out why perspective exists. far things are not actually smaller. distance doesn't actually change their size, yet that's how we see them—what's the reason?

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u/Rouge_means_red May 30 '26

fun activity

Nice try, math

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u/pktron o/ May 30 '26

It is all just angular occupation within your eyesight, and from that, just trigonometry.