The Door Swings Open and Then Closes Again as Your

question 110

Short Answer

The door swings open and then closes again as your roommate enters the apartment. You continue to see the door as rectangular even though the shape of its image on your retina progresses from a wide rectangle, through a series of parallelograms, to a very narrow rectangle, then back again. Your perception of the door as an unchanging rectangle exemplifies shape ______.

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