At those sort of magnifications, who knows what optical physics come into play. Wouldn't be surprised if some distortions are in there. Macro optical behaviour is different to "normal" shooting distance optical behaviour, and I'd imagine at this scale...
Hang on - we don't know if that shot is flat on. What if the mocule is actually angled slightly so the left end is closer to us and the right end further away. That'd explain it.
I was actually amazed at how closely it resembles the diagrammatic representations. I had always assumed there was some sort of artistic licence involved to get the point across, but this shows it "true".
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