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In the experiment,
subjects did perceive a slanted
plane (although the slant they
perceived was not as great as
the actual slant), and they
perceived the depth much more
accurately when the sheet
moved than when it was
stationary. Notice that in this
experiment it is the display
that moves, not the observer. It
was presumed, though, that the
exact same kind of information
would be available were the
display to be stationary and the
observer to move, as is more
typically the case in daily life.
Motion can create the
impression of depth in other
ways as well. For example, the
shadow cast on a screen by a
thin, tilted rod attached to a
wire stem will appear to
observers to be in a frontal
plane, but, if the object is
rotated, observers will perceive
the pattern of cast shadows as
an object rotating in the third
dimension. That is, when the
object is rotated, observers
perceive veridically that it is a
rigid thing tilted in the third
dimension, not a thing
changing in length and tilt in a
frontal plane. Hans Wallach
and his associates, who first
conducted experiments along
these lines, termed this
phenomenon the kinetic depth
effect. Again, we would expect
the same outcome were the
observer to circle the wire
object from a distance of
several feet, viewing its
changing projection with one
eye closed. Were the observer to
remain stationary, the object
would probably appear to be in a
frontal plane because all other
cues would be eliminated.