Shapes on the surface of a perspective picture may be misperceived. Subjects picked a match for an ellipse depicting the circular top of a cylinder. The top was depicted as tilted forward from 5° to 85°, generating a series of ellipses on the picture surface. The matches were biased towards a circle over a wide range of midrange tilts, which suggests that, influenced by features of perspective, they were seen as in-between the shape on the surface and the shape they depicted.
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