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Our eyes can also be confused by relatively simple patterns: http://brainden.com/images/ricewave-big.gif

Intuitively, it does seem like stripes would make it more difficult to achieve focus for a compound eye, similar to how when looking through a chain-link fence or window screen it's easy to focus the wrong plane due to the spaced repetition.



Vision is weird. It's things like this that, in my opinion, showcase the idea that our perception of reality is sculpted by our physiobiology.


It's deeper than that, not sculpted by - entirely defined by.

You're a lump of electrical fat wrapped in a fortress of bone, running an internal approximation of the localised world outside.

And from within this fortress, with its little holes for light, you control a robot made of meat.


I’ll never forgive Animal Collective for using this as an album cover!




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