You can't exactly replicate something that is three dimensional, like our planet, on a flat piece of paper, because paper has only two dimensions, and that means there'll always be a certain degree of distortion on a map.
" Here, " Moody muttered, thrusting a piece of parchment towards Harry's Disillusioned hand and holding his lit wand close to it, so as to illuminate the writing, " Read quickly and memorise."
He lived in this paper world and he surrounded himself, yes, with these installations of books, but, he knew where every single book was, even though it looked like total chaos.
Of these, only the fovea has a high enough density of cones, the type of photoreceptor cell in your eye that can perceive small details, to make out text on a page.
The arrangement of squiggles on a page feeds into visual memory: people might remember a word they wrote down in French class as being at the bottom-left on a page, par exemple.
Within a group, student A picks a piece of paper with a word or phrase on it and asks questions that will make student B say the exact word or phrase on the paper.
In another study published in 2013, researchers showed 126 people pictures of planets printed on glossy and non-glossy paper and asked them to rate what they thought about them.