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To: LibWhacker
Despite how complex their eyes are, they still have a tiny brain.

Much of vision is in the processing.

30% of the human brain is devoted to vision.

The shrimps' problem is the opposite of the "Garbage in Garbage out" computing dilemma.

They have the best input, but lack the computer power to appreciate most of it.

12 posted on 09/08/2013 8:31:38 PM PDT by ClaytonP
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To: ClaytonP

I’ve always been amazed that birds have effectively 360 degree vision - that is, they can see and entire panorama at once. Of course, how much of that is acute, or how much of that they can process at once is questionable. I’ll bet that they have motion detection 360 degrees, though.


17 posted on 09/08/2013 9:03:47 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: ClaytonP
30% of the human brain is devoted to vision.

I once got polarized prescription sunglasses. I thought something was "off" glare-wise in the store, when I picked them up in the dead of Winter one night.

Out and about the next day, sunny, all the minimized glare seemed to be shimmering.

I had an inkling of what was wrong, so I put on another pair of polarized sunglasses over the prescription pair, and one eye went dark.

They had ground one lens 90deg off, so my brain was trying to process vertical polarization in one eye, with horizontal polarization in the other.

I would imagine that JJ Abrams is annoyed that he probably can't annoy Mantis Shrimp with his lens flare.

18 posted on 09/08/2013 9:04:22 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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