[RCSE] Re: Seeing small objects

[Soareyes]

Fortunately most of us have two eyes so each eye fills in the blind spot for the other eye.

In a message dated 6/25/03 4:29:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

There is also a blind spot near the center on your retina where you can't
see it all.� I believe it's the spot where all the nerves and blood vessles
enter the eye.

You can demonstrate this to yourself pretty easily.� Take a blank sheet of
paper.� Take a pen and make a dot in the center.� Now make anothr dot about
2 inches to the right side of the first.� Hold the paper a foot or two in
front of your face and close your left eye.� Now use your right eye to
stare at the left-most dot.� Slowly move the piece of paper toward your eye
and keep staring directly at the left dot.� At some point, you will see the
dot on the right completely vanish.� As you continue moving the paper
closer, the dot will re-appear on the other side of the blind spot.� I
still find it amazing that your brain sees the world as one continuous
image, when it is in fact, not.

Now, imagine how this will effect looking at a tiny dot of a model airplane
on a big blue background.