coin or fish in water

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wormboge

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What determines if it looks smaller and closer or larger and farther? I know that due to refraction the line of sight bends but our brains see images as though they are straight ahead. I'm lost as to why some underwater objects appear larger and farther, and others appear smaller and closer.