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Tracking smoothly. Copied from my other comment in this thread: When you're focusing/tracking something your eyes do a different type of movement called smooth
by personjerry 4y ago
Tracking smoothly. Copied from my other comment in this thread:
When you're focusing/tracking something your eyes do a different type of movement called smooth pursuit [0].
To see this in action, look around normally - notice your eyes move and then stop, taking in "still frames".
Next, look at your finger and move your finger around. Notice that your eyes smoothly follow the finger around.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_pursuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_pursuit
- gameshot911 4y agoThat's cool! I really can't track around the room smoothly, despite "trying" hard to do so! Grr....
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- foobarbecue 4y agoHaha yes this has annoyed me since I was a kid!
- outworlder 4y agoIt is possible to train yourself to do that. I'd suggest starting with the corners of the room, horizontally, where the ceiling meets the wall. Taking your eyes slightly out of focus helps too. You will fail often. The goal is to minimize saccades. If you are not following a pre-existing "line", it gets exponentially harder.
- foobarbecue 4y agoThanks for the info. The part about needing catch-up saccades above a certain speed is particularly interesting.
- thedanbob 4y agoI used to play with this as a kid. I have eye floaters[0] that tend to drift down to the bottom of my eyes, so I would saccade my eyes up to bring them to the center of my vision, then focus on the floaters and smoothly watch them on the way down (which actually just kept them centered since I was matching the tracking rate to their falling speed). I was kind of a weird kid. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
- usgroup 4y agoI did the same thing in much the same way … So there’s at least two of us mate.