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My understanding is the Blind spot is nowhere near the "centre" of our vision. The centre is the bit we use for visual fidelity, or central focus. [0]"The blin
by _carbyau_ 2y ago
My understanding is the Blind spot is nowhere near the "centre" of our vision. The centre is the bit we use for visual fidelity, or central focus.
[0]"The blind spot in humans is located about 12–15° temporally and 1.5° below the horizontal and is roughly 7.5° high and 5.5° wide."
It is however quite freaky how well the brain smoothes it over so convincingly!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
- anyfoo 2y ago> The centre is the bit we use for visual fidelity, or central focus. When I got my retina imaged (routine, no problems found), I was amazed at how small that spot is when it was pointed out to me. Only a tiny part of the retina is actually seeing in high resolution. Which I guess at least partly explains why everything outside the very center of my vision seems so illegible and somewhat... "unstable" if I stare at one spot for longer.