What're the Specs on your Eyeballs?

The human eye is infinitely fascinating considering it allows us to see light, darkness, color, depth, shape, and texture. But our eyes are really just tools that feed the message to our brains. Like a camera to our own eyes. So we've done some studies, and it turns out, the eye isn't all too different from how a camera works, but also completely different. It's just organic and automatic.

-Shutter speed? Nah. Video cameras work by taking many pictures over time and then replaying them at a high enough speed to trick our eyes into thinking it's real time. Comparatively, the human eye has a true constant feed. What we see can not be divided into separate units. It's one continuous flow of multiple images combined to produce our vision. On top of that, the way we see things isn't necessarily how they really are.

-Speaking of seeing things in our own way, eyes are definitely unlike cameras in that respect. Still images are not a real time stare. A picture is one moment in time, however our eyes see through time, and if it were to stop, we'd basically be blind. We are always experiencing changes, even when we can't see them. A picture can't change, but because our eyes don't see through multiple pictures, everything is always changing.

-Resolution usually comes factory preset. Computers and cameras have limited resolutions, that's a given of course. However, we do too. The whole vision grading scale with the best being 20/20 and color testing determine your eye quality. "Joel we know this, why are you being redundant?" Because even though a person's vision may be worse comparatively to another's, we still see incredibly complex details. A screen or camera resolution will always be mathematically limited, but due to our eyes being of organic structure, we can see beyond pixels.

Eyes are the most incredible part of the body to me. Their ability to sense kind of pales every other sense we have when you think about it. We do kind of take seeing for granted, and definitely color.

It would be pretty cool if we could figure out how to make cameras function like human eyes, but at that point we'd reach the surreal zone, and probably lose sight of what's real.

Will we ever reach a point of tech where we can have camera resolutions parallel eyes? It doesn't sound very possible to me, but humans are pretty stubborn animals when it comes to making things.