Because a three-dimensional object is represented on the two-dimensional screen, distortion and ambiguity result.
Currently the images of the planes exist as dots on a two-dimensional screen.
With his arm still buried up to his elbow in the two-dimensional screen of the self-consideration circuit, Phaethon took his hand off of the index box.
She's unrolling it right in front of Da5id's face, spreading it apart like a flat two-dimensional screen in front of his eyes.
By some trick, even on my two-dimensional screen, it looked a bit three-dimensional.
As a comic actress she was a natural; her full-bodied effervescence fizzed off the two-dimensional screen.
These details trick the mind into thinking that this object on a two-dimensional screen actually has depth and texture.
In order to create the illusion of three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional screen, movie theaters need to control exactly which photons go to each of your eyes.
But of course it all ended up on a two-dimensional flat screen.
Like a photograph or a painting, the two-dimensional screen represents a three-dimensional world.