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WHILE agreeing in some measure with the conclusion of G. H. Fisher1 that the appearance of spatial distortion may be partly explained by a non-linear function relating retinal image size to object distance, we seriously question some of the premises on which this conclusion is based.
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NAYLOR, E., TOMLINSON, A. Retinal Images from Distant Objects: the Premises for an Interpretation. Nature 224, 1129–1130 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241129a0
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