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Philips Magnavox Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Trigger Happy User Manual

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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