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“The critical act in formulating computational theories turns out to be the discovery of valid constraints on the way the world is structured -- constraints that provide sufficient information to allow the processing to succeed.”

David Marr

Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes, 1978

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“Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information.”

David Marr

as cited in Steven Yantis (2001) Visual Perception: Essential Readings, p. 117.
Vision, 1982

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“A representation is a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this. And I shall call the result of using a representation to describe a given entity a description of the entity in that representation.”

David Marr

Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes, 1978

“The primitives of a representation are the most elementary units of shape information available in a representation.”

David Marr

Source: Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes, 1978, p. 274