From: | Gorbi gbmaill@***.de |
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Subject: | 360 degree vision (WAS: Munchkin overkill) |
Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:27:39 +0200 |
>> > Of course it can be done. Wanna get really scary? Replace its eyes
>> > with a 360 degree globe with visual capabilities so that it can see
>> > all around itself.
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> Another thing. How would the brain react? Would it actually see? IIRC
> (from Biology class), vision works by sending two impulses to the brain,
> which it can decode into a three-dimensional view of what is actually seen.
> Depth perception and all that shit. Now, a complete 360 degree view would
> be pretty two-dimensional, unless two orbs were used. And even then, I
> think the brain is not wired to see much more than the 90 or so degrees we
> are used to seeing (120 with peripheral vision). How would it react to 360
> degrees of info?
Since no one goes crazy when he sees a 360 deg. panorama photo I think the
brain would adapt. But that rises another question: HOW would it adapt? I
think it would interpret all the things it sees to be in front of it.
Imagine: A crowded place, you see the assassin (sp?) to the left, he raises
his knive, you shoot him -- and hit the innocent granny that was in front of
you. But the granny is the last thing you see because the assassin kills you
anyway from behind.
HEHEHE.
Gorbi