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Watching a perfectly round tire warp into a bizarre oval

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Shape constancy handles the incredibly complex geometry happening constantly within your visual field. If you view a round dinner plate from a sharp angle, it physically projects a squashed oval onto your optical sensors. Your biology immediately steps in, aggressively correcting the distortion in real-time so you never actually perceive the dinnerware as constantly mutating shapes.

Watching a perfectly round tire warp into a bizarre oval
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