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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to woahdude@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Your brain won't let you see all the dots at once.

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Your brain won't let you see all the dots at once.

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to woahdude@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • pwalshj@lemmy.world
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    So is this like a type of buffering? Saving brain RAM?

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      Brain interpolating the parts of the image missing due to blood vessels, etc over the retina I think

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      It’s more like shortcutting via pattern recognition

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      Your eyes are very low resolution outside of the center of your vision, so your brain makes up a lot of missing info to prevent you from noticing. Try reading this comment without moving your eyes, for example. Keep them straight ahead. It is impossible.

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        Yeah this, most of the sides of the retinas are meant for color distinction and not granular details, the only detailed part of our eyes is very close to center

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    So what, my brain doesn’t let me do a lot of things.

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    Most I can see is 12, how many are there?

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      12. The only way I found to mostly break the illusion is to zoom in and you can see 3 at a time. If you rotate your phone, you may be able to see two at once.

      It’s a sneaky one and I don’t remember it working this well on me.

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        I got all 12 in landscape mode with one eye closed. :)

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          Unfocus your eyes, it breaks most optical illusions

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    You sure? I see like a lot of dots at all the intersections

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      I only see a dot at the intersection I’m focusing on. I wonder what the difference is.

      Are you a spider?

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        It’s likely the size of their display

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          Makes sense, I’m only a phone and saw 12 immediately.

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            Damn how small is your phone. I tried to put my phone away to make my screen smaller in my FOV and I still can’t see every dot. Hmm maybe it’s my brain that’s malfunctioning.

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