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Fig. 12. Silent Hill: fog and snow heighten the tension (‰ 1999 Konami)

In general, painting avoids the confusions of marginal distortion by two methods: combining several slightly different viewpoints (especially in large canvases), or keeping the angle of vision relatively narrow. The reason such discrepancies occur is that in real life we never actually keep our viewpoint “fixed” in one place for any great period of time; our eyes dart and flit over the scene in a series of saccades, building up an overarching picture out of fragments. If we were to concentrate attention on our sidelined sphere by

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