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  1.  
  2.     This book explores the
  3. perception of the properties of
  4. objects (such as size and shape),
  5. their distance from us, and
  6. their motion. It focuses on
  7. problems such as are posed by
  8. the achievement of constancy
  9. of perceived object properties
  10. despite an ever-changing
  11. retinal image. Given the
  12. similarity of the eye to a
  13. camera, the mystery of our
  14. perception is how we manage to
  15. transcend the inadequate,
  16. distortion-prone, ambiguous,
  17. two-dimensional images
  18. established on the retina and
  19. achieve the rich, constant,
  20. usually correct, three-
  21. dimensional representation of
  22. the world that we do. The book
  23. also investigates cases in
  24. which perception fails to
  25. achieve correct
  26. representation, namely,
  27. illusion.