[SGVLUG] Especially for Mike

[Jean Chen]

Good points Mike and Dustin!!

I wish I had a TiVo.  Cable and working TV too.  I didn't get cable or
ship my TV to school in order to save money, but I miss them.

Jean



On 3/6/06, Dustin Laurence <dustin at dogbert.laurences.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:32:46PM -0800, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
>
> > On 3/6/06, Jean Chen <narsil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I wonder what resolution you could say our eyes have.  I must look
> > > that up sometime.
> >
> > I don't think the resolution of the eyes is very good but there is
> > very advanced software to interperlate, the bad input data, as well as
> > buffers. Hence the reason anything over 21 or so frames per-second
> > seems like full montion.
>
> Hmm.  This:
>
> http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html
>
> comes up with a value of 576 megapixels, and admits that doesn't cover
> the full range of vision.  That is what I was going to say--the field
> of view is really good, much better than most everyday devices (and
> we're so optimized for binocular vision that we aren't very good in the
> field-of-view department.
>
> I'd say that's pretty good.
>
> However, I agree with Mike in that counting pixels doesn't do vision
> justice.  Beyond the image processing, there is the dynamic range and
> also the dual sensor setup.
>
> Dustin
>
>
>


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