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Don't worry even though many of them have a much wider field of view then humans, their vision is much less advanced, many can't even see colours or the directi
by LoveMortuus 4y ago
Don't worry even though many of them have a much wider field of view then humans, their vision is much less advanced, many can't even see colours or the direction of light, although the latter is probably achieved with image processing.
Interesting thing that I discovered about a month ago:
Humans have an inverted retina, which means that our sensing cells are the furthest away from the light of in other words the sensing cells layer is covered by another nine layers of different cells. This seemed kind of illogical to me, which I pointed out to the professor, why is our retina inverted? Because if it wasn't, then we would have blind spots and because most of the body cells diffuse light, the image quality could be better. Sadly the professor didn't know the answer. But when I got home and did some research I discovered that we actually have another set of cells in our eyes called Müller cells which extend through all nine layers from the top of retina to the top is our sensing cells. These Müller cells function similarly to optical fibers, they direct light to the sensing cells so that were actually able to see a clear image. Taking this into consideration, our eyes become quite similar to eyes of bees and bugs. As to why our retina is inverted and thus requires special cells to solve the problems that inverting the retina introduces, it's actually quite simple and obvious, is because of "power consumption" or in other words, or sensing cells require a lot of food and nutrients which is why directly behind the sensing cells there a web of capillaries and thus they are the first cells in the retina that get food.