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My theory is that most perceived perspective errors arise when a photograph captured with a wide field of view is shown in a narrower one; a perspective-"distorted" image looks more realistic if you put your nose up to the screen so the photograph fills more of your field of view (enlarging the center and eventually squashing the edges). And tricks like Panini projection and Piranesi's arches are ways of making features at the edge of the screen "take up" the correct amount of viewing angle (without bending straight lines) when the painting takes up less of your vision than the original scene.