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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️The human eye doesn't move smoothly, but in short quick moves with pauses between them.
The reason is to prevent the CGA snow that would result if the VRAM was being accessed at the same time as the image is drawn
tekhedd@foone All this time I thought it was an Eco Mode enhancement
Sam Livingston-Gray
Inspired@geeksam @foone @lurkjay If you artificially stabilize where an image appears on your retina so that those micro-saccades don't affect your brain's perception of it, you stop being able to detect a lot of the features in the image. For instance, a circular light-to-dark gray gradient ends up looking just uniformly gray.
Lillian Violet@foone it can move smoothly though! But only via the autonomous function to track something while your head is moving. Which is why you can move around but keep looking at the same spot. We just didn't evolve a way to use that same skill for looking around as well, probably not that advantageous for survival. Birds do a similar thing but with their necks since they don't have eyes that can move within their sockets.
Frank Hightower 🐁@foone OMG I choked on my coffee, that's a good one!
Mike Spooner@foone Love it. Only moves during the vertical retrace period? So that's why TV was so popular.
vxo@foone I still remember setting the DOS environment value NOSNOWCONTROL = TRUE for *something* but damned if I remember what
Ian K Tindale@foone the entire universe, reality and all the stuff, actually ceases to exist between each microsaccade – which saves energy as we don’t notice
Fae Empress@foone Makes sense to me. Can I be upgraded to SVGA?
@faeempress not yet but we're working on it.
Trinsec@foone Sometimes my brain goes haywire and then I see CGA-colored vertical stripes across my vision with a loud crackling PING in the background.
Am I secretly a videocard?
Am I secretly a videocard?