Imagine your take a photo while standing on a train track pointing your camera in either direction of the perfectly even track. Now if you look at the photo. You would figure, that both individual metal parts of the track move closer together the farther they are away, creating some kind of “depth”(?). But I cant explain why that is.
It found it very odd to look at such a pictures in the last time, and started to question it. Why is our visual perception that kind of “distorted”?
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hold your thumb in front of your face very close. now slowly move it away. It gets smaller.
This is because your eyes are not flat. This allows you to view objects and scenery bigger than your eyes. Think of a flashlight and how the light it shines gets bigger the further it gets from the source.
What you are seeing is this in reverse. Because you are not “producing” light but “capturing” it.
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