kawecki opened this issue on Jul 20, 2010 · 19 posts
ockham posted Tue, 20 July 2010 at 7:14 PM
As BB said, the brain function is the key, and you won't be able to come anywhere
near duplicating that in a camera equivalent.
Bear in mind that the retina is hugely imperfect. The middle zone (fovea) is actually
missing, and there are many other distortions and gaps in an adult eye, worse as we
get older. With a scene made of familiar elements, the brain fills in those missing
points and reconstructs what the external patterns "should" look like. (Luckily, as we
get older the brain also knows more about familiar elements!) You can lose a tremendous
number of original "pixels", or have a tremendous amount of distortion in the lens and
retina, before the perceived result starts to deteriorate. It's magic and miraculous.