Accurate visual measurement of three-dimensional moving patterns.

Human observers discriminated relative three-dimensional distances in simple patterns of motion parallax with an acuity similar to vernier acuity under comparable conditions. Accurate visual measures of three-dimensional distance can be derived from the structural invariance of patterns undergoing perspective transformations.

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