> The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the imag

> The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the image in one's brain to "paint" the detail. (...) Then we would see (...) 576 megapixels (...) This kind of image detail requires A large format camera to record. The first sentence seems to contradict the last. It's obvious that you can't take in a 120 degree view in detail even near to 576 megapixels in any period of time short enough to compare to take one photograph. If we instead consider a rather modest 1.3 megapixel camera, and using the 15 fps figure that's provided elsewhere in the article, it will take 30 seconds to "record" the scene in full detail. Also, that assumes that the scene is intensely diverse - it seems that the brain has a pretty efficient compression algorithm. Looking out at the sea, you can immediately dismiss 80% of the scene as "water" and "sky" and concentrate on the detail, arriving quickly at a very high resolution image for the 20%, even with much less than 1,3 megapixel "per frame" resolution.