T3D Re: RE: acuity enhanced with binocular vision

[Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 4:25 PM -0700 3/23/98, john bercovitz wrote:
>I wonder if this experiment has been done.  It plays along with
>my thought that there may be a comparator in the head which is
>tossing out noise by comparing the two eye's inputs.

But remember, there is a small but significant proportion of the world that
is only visibe to one eye or the other (behind any occluding edge)...

>  You have a
>monitor for each eye and on one you flash a pixel in the blind
>spot of one eye.  On the other monitor it's in the same location
>so it's not in the blind spot of that eye.  Next you flash a pixel
>that's out of both eyes' blind spots.  You compare how visible
>these two ways of presenting the pixel are.  If there is some
>cancelling going on, it shouldn't be when it's in one eye's blind
>spot but rather only when it's shown to one eye and not the other
>but not in the location of either's blind spot blind spot.  Whew!
>There _must_ be a better way of saying that!

Say wha'?!?  :-)

-Jim C.

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Jim Crowell
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