Quick Summary (more): You see in high resolution for only a tiny part of your visual field. The remainder is lower resolution and
with less color reception. This flash movies simulates, roughly, this reality. Your eye is flitting around
the page about 10 times a second and can use the periphery to jump to any location on the page, viewable in
the B/W low resolution. Use the Up/Down arrows or your mousewheel to adjust your "focal depth" -- note you'll have to place focus on the movie by clicking first.
The technique of reducing the peripheral display resolution has bene an active topic of work to optimize graphic display CPU demands for some years. This work from standard is well illustrated and covers some of the basic principles: Scien.Stanford.edu...
How it Works
The following graphic is used as a mask. It represents the overlapping visual fields of the two eyes with a fovea and para-fovea representation.
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