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Eye vs. camera - Michael Mauser

2015-04-06

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Explore the similarities and differences between how your eyes see and how a video camera “sees.”

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Your eyes don’t always capture the world exactly as a video camera would. But the eyes are remarkably efficient organs, the result of hundreds of millions of years of coevolution with our brains. Michael Mauser outlines the similarities and differences between your eye and a video camera.

Lesson by Michael Mauser, animation by Nick Hilditch.

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