Friday, June 11, 2010

How many megapixels are your eyes?

“The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the image in one’s brain to “paint” the detail. [There is also the issue of saccades and what happens during those] We also have two eyes, and our brains combine the signals to increase the resolution further. We also typically move our eyes around the scene to gather more information. Because of these factors, the eye plus brain assembles a higher resolution image than possible with the number of photoreceptors in the retina.”
The following calculation shows the equivalent megapixel number of the human eye viewing a scene.

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