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If the book is not held in
the frontal plane, the angle
formed by the rays from its
endpoints will be compressed,
the retinal image of this
surface of the book will thus be
smaller, and its shape will be
distorted. The more the
orientation of the object
departs from the frontal plane,
the more its shape on the
retina will be distorted. In the
language of perspective, this
compression is termed
foreshortening.
These same principles
explain why roads, railroad
tracks, and other parallel lines
in the environment that are
not in the frontal plane will
yield projections to the eye
that converge. They also
explain why an image of
pebbles on a beach or some
other uniform texture on a
surface becomes increasingly
dense with receding distance.
In these cases, the visual
angles subtended by objects and
by the separation of spaces
between objects become
increasingly small as distance
increases.