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Friday, May 21, 2010

Depth perception - hmphf.

It seems I have a slight scarring smakc in the middle of the visual field in my right eye.
Rats! Well, no, rats had nothing to do with it. In fact, I have no idea how it happened, and the opthalmologist was also unhelpful. Anyway...
The scarring means that my visual field is "bent" in the middle; my mind sees the scarring as a curvature in the actual visual field, and straight lines appear "humped" for about 10 degrees of angle right in the centre.
Cute.
Except that my left eye is fine, so there is a discrepancy. Very annoying.
And it has two interesting side effects: first, I am developing a tendency to more dominance in my left eye; second, my depth perception is affected.
And that is QUITE ANNOYING.
As an aside, I think it has actually helped my pistol shooting! Go figure!

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