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My 14th favorite - thank you to commenters that pointed out the upload was blurry. I couldn't edit; I had to delete and re-post.
Chimkin Nugget.
Tunisia
My undergrad thesis was on fucking with people by getting them to search for something on a screen and moving everything during saccades.
OgreMkV
This is why scientists use cameras and measurement tools. We are terrible at everything. Just good enough to survive.
idontknowyoufromadam
I see ...
Gameskyjumper
When you get to a certain age (like 40?) you really need to do a Visual Field Test to find out if one or more spots of your eye is dead.
NotAgainRichard
Imagine, you are Siri Keeton.
Oprean
That's Echopraxia
nojustsayitdont
I noticed that about second hands on clocks when I was a kid. I just went with it.
capablecow
Ya know in Anime when a scary character seems bigger and more dangerous? Intent.
RuffleMyFluffles
Yeah... I have strabismus (cross eyed) diagnosed as an adult and before that my brain just ignored most of one eye's info without me knowing
sjbrooksy7447
Also everything we see is slightly in the past since light doesn't travel instantly
milskiCatDiver
The action potentials that move along the neurons from the eye to the brain are slow enough to make that insignificant.
whatsisname
At human life scales there is no difference.
Texashosinski31415
I love reading this stuff. Also though, if you pronounce it wrong, it's a great setup for a "saccadeez nutz" joke somewhere...
ProjectorGames
Maybe the Weeping Angels move during saccades! :o
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
Indie game dev in need of a title reading this: "mhm, mhmm, interesting, whoa hey wait, 'Chronostasis'? That's it, that's the one"
thepicklebucket
multi-threaded programming is hard in real-time systems
fastjeff
Cool, look at that moon, it's like a big ass pizza pie, lemme get a picture..... aww... it's a spot.
ontheotherone
This fascinates me every time!
KingXizor
Yeah, I'd be curious to hear the in depth reason behind developing blind spots or swaths during the start of a migraine, too.
FeChefImgur
I'd read this before, but it's a fun re-read all the same.
petpet3d
Especially in screenshot-of-twitter-posts format
WombatsRunAwaytoDig
That's how I felt rediscovering it in my favorites! ☺️
SpaceballsTheComment
And with us tonight is Kyle Hill and Impossible Colors! Take it away, Science Thor: https://youtu.be/41H7kKwUlHo
lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
Buffering buffering buffering... Hey here's a video I made just for you
ensensu
That's dreams for you. Loading a youtube video on a dial-up internet connection.
Override9636
Is there a sciencey word for your eyes not being able to read half of this post because twitter is the worst format for conveying info?
houpbajoup
Sometimes when I'm on my motorcycle, I think about saccadic masking and laugh and go "yeah I probably shouldn't be doing this right now"
MaryAlicexoxo
Same happens to me when driving 200 km/h at night. One sec all good, then suddenly - struck by the thought "I'm going to die right here"
Chilichunks
What absolutely blew my tits off back in the day was realizing just simply that we don't see NOW. It takes time for light to enter our eyes,
Chilichunks
time for that image to hit the brain, time for the brain to figure out what we're seeing, then time to tell us what it thinks we see. Of
Chilichunks
course, this is happening insanely fast so it doesn't REALLY matter, but still, we perpetually live in the past.
UnknownSquid
And various animals, happen to do it faster, and so live slightly closer to "now", which we experience as differing reaction speed.
MaryAlicexoxo
All hail the Mantis Shrimp!!
nojustsayitdont
There is no 'now'.
SteveMND
As someone who's blind in one eye, and has had some weird vision issues thanks to MS, the way the eye and the brain works is truly bizarre.
WombatsRunAwaytoDig
Truly, truly bizarre. I'm sorry to hear that MS has impacted your vision.
SteveMND
All good & thanks. I actually have it somewhat mild compared to a lot of other folks with MS (we found a medication that works well for me).
WombatsRunAwaytoDig
I'm glad to hear that, that there's a med that works well for you! My point of reference was a friend's parent, 30 years ago; tx have 1/
WombatsRunAwaytoDig
Improved since then. I wish you well! 2/2
salunatics
In a similar vein, magenta is a shared delusion of what our brain thinks red and blue (opposite ends of spectrum) should look like combined.
ProgeriaProstitutes
All mixed colours work like that though
brantosaurus85
I think the point is that the other two mixed primary colors, green and orange, also exist in the vis light spectrum. Magenta does not.
jarfil
Green is not a mixed primary color, you probably meant yellow.
MaryAlicexoxo
Yeah but the fun fact about magenta is - it doesn't exist. There is no magenta wave-length, it's just the complete absence of green.
MaryAlicexoxo
But the color magenta exists for us. Because our brains make it up.
ProgeriaProstitutes
Ok but there is no brown or white wavelength either. They're combinations of other wavelengths, just like magenta is.
MaryAlicexoxo
So - no. White is 400-700nm and contains all wave lengths(= colors) we can see. Brown is ~600nm. See, you could Google stuff. But I'll help.