Why can cameras take longer exposures than the human eye? Of course, that’s easy. Because a camera passes every single pixel of data to the general purpose computer chip it has onboard, then it can use whatever programmed algorithm one likes to process that image. Whereas, the human vision system has a mandatory fixed-purpose structure sitting between the eyes and the conscious mind that only features a limited range of processing functions. This is why you can’t tell your brain to do a long exposure on an image, or even better, to digitally refocus an image to compensate for your myopia or hyperopia. Nope, your brain can’t do that. The structures in your brain are grown and wired in as-is, without allowing for reprogrammability. You need a computer if you want to do that.
Well, these are important for my inventory system too. On describing human vision. Not fully developed until after 6 months of age from birth.
20150911/http://vischeck.com/
20191123/https://web.archive.org/web/20150911/http://tinyeyes.com/
Only recently are we talking about the resolution of the human retina and its refresh rate. Something that we humans can now relate to, now that we have computers for which we know the specifications of. Before the computer age, that was simply something humans didn’t think existed. Of course there are no “pixels” in your eye, that would be silly. But now that we do have computer systems, we do start to call into question how the features and capabilities of our body, on a tech-specs level, compares with that of computers.
It’s good to remember, that although general-purpose computer technology certainly rides the wave of Moore’s Law, multimedia equipment has not progressed at nearly the same rate. Over many many years, this has led to the association of participatory presence in the media being characteristic only intermittently among middle-class citizens and substantially more often among upper-middle class citizens. Heavily biased and very seldom, so to speak. Though at the back end of the media spectrum, multimedia publication has been apparent to all. Nowadays, low-quality low cost multimedia equipment is increasingly becoming available to the average person, and to some extent the below average person.