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Are you assuming uniform pixel density? A typical eye has ~1e8 rods, but they're very much not uniformly distributed. If you can place each "pixel" perfectly (f
by addaon 6y ago
Are you assuming uniform pixel density? A typical eye has ~1e8 rods, but they're very much not uniformly distributed. If you can place each "pixel" perfectly (for example with a retinal projector), you can get away with only a hundred million pixels or so; but if you want a uniform grid, then you need the pixel spacing to match the maximum angular acuity of the eye, which is several orders of magnitude more pixels.
In either case, we're a few orders of magnitude off with current displays, although you can gain as much of that back as you want by reducing angular extent ("screen size").
- meristohm 6y agoSounds like we have a ways to go yet before it makes sense to not bother further. I was assuming uniform pixel density, because I didn’t know any better. Cool to think of an efficient retinal projector putting the light right where it’s most useful.