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Nevertheless, size
proportionality is probably not
the major explanation of either
size perception or size
constancy. In the examples just
cited, for instance, the
dramatic effects are primarily
the consequence of our
interpretation of the picture
and our interpretive
acceptance of an altered scale
rather than the consequence of
our actual perceptions of size.
In examples more typical of
daily life, our perceptions of
size change only slightly with
varying contexts. Furthermore,
the results of the
proportionality experiment,
impressive as they are, are not
good enough to explain
constancy. Further
experiments have established
that, if the difference in the
size of the rectangles is greater
than the 3:1 value described
above, the result departs even
more from the proportionality
prediction. Yet when one
compares a scene such as a
person next to a house viewed
from 1000 meters with that
scene viewed from, let us say,
10 meters, the difference
between visual angles of the
house is equivalent to an
experiment with frames of
reference that differ by 100:1.
While full constancy might
well occur in such a real-life
comparison, the result of an
experiment on line matching
with two rectangles that differ
by 100:1 would depart
appreciably from a
proportionality prediction. As
for GibsonΓÇÖs theory, it
maintains that constancy does
not simply depend upon the
occlusion by objects of an equal
number of units in the texture
of the plane. It also requires
that the plane is perceived to be
receding in depth with textured
units that are perceived as
equal and everywhere
equidistant from one another.
Naturally, if that is true,
objects at different distances
that cover an equal number of
texture units are, almost by
definition, equal in size. If,
however, the textured surface
does not look like a receding
plane, the effect does not
occur.