Camera or eye: Which sees better? - Michael Mauser
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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Is it just me, but I didn't see colors in the rings 😐
@rrgeada
9 жыл бұрын
same
@tourniqut
9 жыл бұрын
same here
@madhughneasai7106
9 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@jaberjbaar
9 жыл бұрын
Me too
@sooooooooDark
9 жыл бұрын
i rewatched it...cuz i didnt see shit either and i...think...i saw red on the very edge of the disc there where it goes to the surrounding tealish color 3:40 doesnt "jiggle" tho...no matter how hard i try to see anything lol
Me: **doesn’t see the color of the disks at the start** Me: Maybe I am a camera
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Zander Nguyen Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
@changeeyecolor3891
3 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@sparkgrid
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
That meaty squishy sound effect...
@WolfyTheJolteon
5 жыл бұрын
YoungTheFish It makes me sick lol
@monochromeart7311
4 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of the tentacle monsters
@brianjodwischat8759
4 жыл бұрын
THE TREEE ATE THE PERSON
I didn't see any colors
@btonyh5878
8 жыл бұрын
+ConradCBB Me, too. I was so confused.
@adityavirendra7630
8 жыл бұрын
I understand your pain.....
@shanesmith4530
8 жыл бұрын
Same. Are we perhaps androids
@adityavirendra7630
8 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@marcelbaybus5627
8 жыл бұрын
Same
Eye understand now
@thespecialkindofdoritoz8750
9 жыл бұрын
Eye see what you did buddy..... heeehhey!
@matthewjames7513
9 жыл бұрын
Cone on now guys. Lens not encourage people to start making witty puns in the comment section
@SatanistSin
9 жыл бұрын
Matthew James I can't picture this catching on. You shouldn't focus on telling people to f-stop.
@creator-link
9 жыл бұрын
SatanistSin i have no pun Who Want Some PopCornia
@applejack77778
8 жыл бұрын
+Rzkytron Eye don't care.
I paused the video at 4:23 to check if it really was a still image :')
@sim61642
7 жыл бұрын
Jordi Ortolá Ankum why are they moving?
@ruli6871
7 жыл бұрын
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@ruli6871
7 жыл бұрын
sim61642 bo
@niamsx
6 жыл бұрын
Jordi Ortolá A
@niamsx
6 жыл бұрын
Jordi Ortolá Ankum ii
So, the cliffhanger... I assume you'll be covering illusionary man-eating trees in a future video?
Quick question. When fully artificial eyes become commercially available to the impaired, does that mean it'll need to have these evolutionary imperfections (e.g. The blind spot) so our brains can understand what it's seeing?
@apopompi
9 жыл бұрын
Amazing question! I want to say no, because to our brains it's only electric signals, so maybe our brains will only "learn" to see this way.
@obsideonyx7604
9 жыл бұрын
MRoost Rash I agree, the brain is known for being flexible and working with the sensory input it's given no matter how alien it seems.
@RickyC0626
8 жыл бұрын
+Leonis1989 The brain will adapt to whatever you throw at it. For example, the first glasses ever created was an upside down image of the world. After a few days, the brain adapted to it and flipped the image right side up.
@marios1861
7 жыл бұрын
Ricky Chon that happened only once
@dhatrikaranam
7 жыл бұрын
Leonis1989 the blind spot is the spot where the optic nerve is connected to our eye. it's not an imperfection to be honest. its a part of the system.
I'm not seeing any colours in the disk... Tried twice. It did however appear as if the disk was getting in a kind of octagon shape.
@silkthyme
9 жыл бұрын
I didn't see colors either!
@ethansnyder8779
9 жыл бұрын
Me neither!
@maksym.koshovyi
9 жыл бұрын
miha2342 I made a disk kind of this myself at home and on that disk I've seen the colors, but i cannot see any colors (except black and white =) ) on this disk too...
@MsMattness
9 жыл бұрын
I think that it either has to be real life, or the videos has to have higher framerate for it to work. I saw one of these once when I was younger
@KazeTdr
6 жыл бұрын
Me too and i was scared that its just me..haha
One thing the eye does much better than a camera is see a featured dark object against a bright background.
@Ayaforshort
6 жыл бұрын
MrVanillaCaramel Like trees at sunset :)
@Henvag
6 жыл бұрын
Aamir Kumar Depends if your eyes are fully functional
@lukasmihara
5 жыл бұрын
There is this thing called HDR though
@brunolance2551
5 жыл бұрын
Wtf... A camera is nowhere near the details of the human eye.
@captainsquids2792
2 жыл бұрын
@@Henvag that was assumed
i got an ad on contact lenses before this lol
One thing this video should have also pointed out is the fact that our eyes have Dynamic Range far superior to that of a camera. It means that they can deal with extreme contrast. Cameras have to use features such as HDR which is basically stacking shots with different expositions, choose the ones that best capture very bright and dark images, merge them so we can have both in the same picture.
nice vid, but the sound effect. gives me the creeps!
@areebshafinaqash3640
5 жыл бұрын
Yes
@changeeyecolor3891
3 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Jesus christ, I know we're talking anatomy here, but do you have to use that churning sound effect for fucking EVERYTHING?!?!
@YB--iy8nh
6 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Dover
This video somehow has a scary vibe to it lol I don't know why I'm weird
@ShawnRavenfire
9 жыл бұрын
It's definitely the music.
@bellazonna6510
6 жыл бұрын
+Shawn Ravenfire Or the squishy sound during the transition (Man that made me uncomfortable..).
@jillfanning749
6 жыл бұрын
They added mysterious, subtlety unsettling music in the background.
@Hanguyen-mg1ue
6 жыл бұрын
AnastasiaSilvi j
@Dispatern
6 жыл бұрын
Definitely the music and sounds. Don't like it either.
I didn't see any colors. I even went back and tried it in both small screen and full screen.
@AnkurDagar
4 жыл бұрын
HDR capability. LOL
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Shawn Ravenfire Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
For people who doesn't see any color from the disk at the start, it's deep purple/ navy blue. The colors show on the 3 smallest rings only, not the white part. Keep your eyes on the center while it's spinning and you'll see it. You're welcome!
@quantumrift11
Жыл бұрын
I tried it but I still can't see colors. No matter, some optical illusions work for one person and don't for another. The wall of leaves was really waving around all over the place for me lol. And the one image with the circle in the center just looks like it's blinking and pulsing and all kinds of things.
@ZFM0
8 ай бұрын
i saw it, slightly.
At the beginning of the video, when he showed the disk, I only saw black and white. So my eyes were not playing tricks on me.
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Liam Dye Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
It's all about dynamic range. The dynamic range of our eyes is 18, while that of a cinema camera is 15. the most advanced phone camera is only 9.
@vogeline_
Жыл бұрын
Wth is dynamic range? Cen you eat it?
@piratesofphysics4100
11 ай бұрын
@@vogeline_dynamic range is your dad
3:31 I can keep my vision stationary sometimes. so now i know that "receptors don't respond to static images". I got scared sometimes because I was gazing at a precise point and started to see that everything fades out... and 'ocasional trembly' vision is normal
@gn6691
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly like if you focus on a object for a long period of time it disappears as our eyes become stationary.
I thought they were gonna talk about how the moon looks different from when I look at it vs when I try to take a pic of it
Thanks a lot for this video! I have been wondering since forever why I was not able to see stars or faint lights when I looked directly at them. And I asked this to an eye and doctor he didn't know. I thought I had a blind spot right at the center of my eye.
your eyes.exe has stopped responding.
This is eye opening!
One thing the video didn't mention. I still wonder why things we see by our eyes have higher color dynamic range than by cameras? In camera nowadays often have HDR mode which helps us create photos that look more like "reality".
@LittleSolarSystemOfficial
9 жыл бұрын
Thành Đào Công The HDR feature in cameras condense multiple different exposure photos into one, making the photo not overexposed yet also not underexposed. I've always wondered about that too, why our eyes do a great job at making the images we see largely perceptible and of varying exposure. I think it's probably due to the processing the brain does to a certain extent. Obviously there are times where that function fails like in a very dark box in a brightly lit room and vice versa, but my guess is the brain.
눈과 카메라의 차이점을 배웠습니다. 가장 인상 깊었던 것은 초점을 맞추기 위한 방법이 다르다는 것이었습니다. 카메라는 초점을 맞추기 위해 렌즈가 움직이지만 눈은 모양을 바꾸었습니다. 유익한 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.
I was waiting for this comparison for my whole life.
The sound in the beginning and the end is making me feel good.
There are ways the eye is superior too, like a much better dynamic range (HDR processing aside).
@iamthinking2252_
6 жыл бұрын
HillOrStream Rolling shutter effect too?
@-Muzikalite-
2 жыл бұрын
The dynamic range of our eyes is 18, while that of a cinema camera is 15. the most advanced phone camera is only 9.
3:33 so you're saying that our eyes actually have IBIS thats intentionally shaking the image but the brain uses electronic image stabilization to correct it
@yashas9974
3 жыл бұрын
state of the art stabilization :O
Thanks TED-Ed you really helped me out on my science quiz, Top kek , Big love 💯
@super-eth8478
2 жыл бұрын
How did the quiz go ?? Lol
Wow😮it's amazing,especially at 4:23 !! How did they design this image 🤔
Don't forget: the eye can perceive colors on the screen faster than a camera.
I always found it weird when I close one eye, I see the world in a slightly redder hue, and when I close the other it’s a slightly bluer hue. Anyone noticed?
@holy_shushcabin3716
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Though I’d describe it as one eye seeing warmer colors, while the other sees cooler colors. I’ve learned to ignore it.
@not0mnis36
3 жыл бұрын
Why did I never notice this you got me winking
@exodeusovercharge4462
3 жыл бұрын
I had noticed it but couldn't explain it using words.
Thank you for sharing :)
Ohhh how happy am i that you guys made this video
i can make my eye's blur why?
@Hermann493
7 жыл бұрын
ItsFormalCraft XD me too xD
@SirDog
7 жыл бұрын
+Hermann493 same
@NotoLumen
7 жыл бұрын
ItsFormalCraft XD Same here
@hasnain9654
6 жыл бұрын
ItsFormalCraft XD one eye is blur commonly but this is not good thing actually. I have same in my right eye
@scptime1188
5 жыл бұрын
Most people can. The muscles in your eyes can change the shape of your lenses, which makes your vision blurry.
4:23 if you concentrate at one point it won't move
@tanikaradia
3 жыл бұрын
Pro Bro 😎
Amazing collection of facts about human vision
They showed this video in our class today !
4:25 BOI Why is this moving
@user-sm8jd3po8b
7 жыл бұрын
for real it isnt moving XD its ur eye and i know u know dat
@tgmtf5963
5 жыл бұрын
How would you it's not moving bruh?
@ominous_stranger
3 жыл бұрын
It is?
I can't see other colors in the ring even I tried it multiple times🙁🙁🙁🙁
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Dr MOTYA Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
This is the most amazing video
I love this one.
I couldn't see any colors on the disk
@rrvillareal2011
4 жыл бұрын
your color blind
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Varun Maurya Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Romer Villareal this has nothing to do with colour blind
the video fails to mention that our eyes have remarkable capability in mantaining the colors in what we see
This is cool eye effects... I paused at 4:26 and the yellow leaves are still moving. Cool!
if you guys wanna “see” your blind spot close your left eye (you can close either and use the corresponding hand but w/e) and extend your right arm directly in front of you with a thumbs up gesture. now fixate you’re vision on something directly in front of you, don’t follow your thumb, start moving your arm slowly to the right about 45°. you’ll notice your thumb will disappear from your vision, while it reappears if you move your arm a degree to the left or right, or open your left eye.
I didn't see any colours... something wrong with my eyes???
@caovuonglam
5 жыл бұрын
Nah u fine
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
King Casper Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
my eyes aren't playing tricks on me
Thank you!!
honesly i was about wondering how dose the camera looks and the eye looks thanks TED-ed! :D
in the beginning I thought he was actually going to hypnotize me lol
i never saw the colours in the rings
@nicolelee8472
8 жыл бұрын
He said you MAYBE you can see it!! It wasn't confirmed plus MOST of the times you can't do these things on a Mobile or iPad or something!! Because it doesn't work!!
@QuartzOfficial
4 жыл бұрын
@@nicolelee8472 good lord man calm down
@Ruby-lf1yx
3 жыл бұрын
@@QuartzOfficial man did you tell a guy who commented that 3 years ago to calm down
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Hayley Teale Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
Hi, it is best to know everything. And I need one clarification .i want to know how many calenders present today and previous and how the came to that months.
Hey, i love all these vidéo of animations. I would like to know which logiciel i Can use to create the same style of vidéo, if someone Can help me ...😊
Ummm, I might have a problem because none of the images move. I mean, none of the images that are supposed to move because of my eyes jiggling
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
Juan Cocaña instead of looking at the b&w checked box that’s supposed to be moving, look at the broken tv background (???) it will most likely jiggle when it’s not in complete focus
Thanks millions of years of evolution for these wonderfully DESIGNED eyes. (Sarcasm) why can't we look at awesomely designed things and thank the designer. Who would look at a camera and think no one designed it? Who would think a camera just came about by natural processes?
@abdullah3739
Жыл бұрын
That's also my question
The optical illusions in this are driving me crazy!
wow it was very good keep up the good work.
4:23 can stop the image with my brain lol
@realone563
4 жыл бұрын
SAME ROFL
@EliStettner
4 жыл бұрын
It moves if you move where you are looking
but the human eye is the proof we are a product of an intelligent higher being! right?
@sp00k1es
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, go look at any of my other comments for some of the reasons.
@BoxOfCurryos
9 жыл бұрын
It's the product of evolution. Not God. It doesn't exist.
@hisham031170
8 жыл бұрын
+Shketri Yes, so obvious.
@randy4443
6 жыл бұрын
Shketri you are right.
@wilder_adventures
6 жыл бұрын
Amazing how after comparison with a camera, you would still think it is pure chance. Even if our eyes were worse than cameras (remember you judge the quality of a video or a photo taken by a camera to how closely it can duplicate what you can see with your eyes!), the probabilities involved to go from a single cell which then randomly mutates to the eye are so high above the universal probability bound, it is mathematically impossible. This isn't even taking in to account the multiple coordinated mutations that would have to happen simultaneously in order for the eye to arise by chance. I'm sorry, but claiming chance is not consistent with how we spot design and intelligence in everyday life.
I love this channel since the day I knew about TED, and I still enjoy how they make me feel wonder as a child. I am 30 now, and they prove every now and then how much I unknow and how much many I want to know. I would like to collaborate in any mean, can we send you pizza or come to clean for free? Seriously people, anything.
@1888joel
2 жыл бұрын
36
@AlfonsoGeneroso
2 жыл бұрын
@@1888joel 36 what? Apples? Candy? I guess it's my age now, but really strange comment after 6 years.
great video
Creepy Music 🌚
i didnt see any colors there
@evek5019
3 жыл бұрын
GrassOnMan Actually it’s just the video. If it was in real life you would see colours
I didn’t see any color in the spinning disc at the start...... what does that mean?
The other thing is the horizontal span with both the eyes.. 16:9 is better than 4:3 for this purpose.. And VR is trying to increase the range by fitting over it.
0:44 Wait, does anyone else hear the Vsauce music?
Isn't this Vsauce music?
@nathaniel-brookes
6 жыл бұрын
Lord Marcellus From his video: Is the Earth flat
@nathaniel-brookes
5 жыл бұрын
@@adriantcullysover4640 They are versions of the same song by Matt Hill: www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/spooked_1116. This video features the 3rd version, whereas Vsauce's features the 1st with drums.
Since this is a youtube video, I still cannot tell if the leaves are a moving video or a still picture.. So much fun with our brains
I didn't see the colour, but my optometrist said I have 20:15 vision, so does that affect it?
pretty fucking dank, also kinda creepy but just a little
The disc illusion and the jiggle illusion didn't work for me at all... am i the only one? =/
@marlonyo
9 жыл бұрын
***** need to speed up the video in the setting then it shows
@annettebarcroft
7 жыл бұрын
not just you
@maitreyeenabar1754
5 жыл бұрын
Not even me
@ajiwardhana
5 жыл бұрын
Its gray color
@Rhnvrma
2 жыл бұрын
what is status of your eye now
No receptors for dim light at the very centre. Damn this answers so many questions !!!
thankx,i got so much from this
*I had to watch this In my science class .-.* ...And now it’s homework to watch it again 🙄🙃
I'd take a prosthetic eye over a human eye any day. Hell if we could advance prosthetics and genetic engineering enough I'd replace my entire body with efficient machines. It's about being Superior.
@marios1861
7 жыл бұрын
BoxOfCurryos read the book man machine to see what can go wrong with that mentality
always wondered
I finally understand what 3:49 is talking about. The animation for that confused me.
I could do without the disgusting noises.
Please make a video on how to improve your eyesight and remove spectacles....please!
Fantastic
Thanks for the info. But what's with the scarry music in the background?
This well explains why special force training tells trainees to look at target's fringe at night. That helps eyes to catch more signal than staring directly at target.
They did not mention regional light sensitivity. If you look through the window to sunny street you continue to percept detail inside the room which have much smaller amount of light. No one camera can do this.
You can actually see the constant intensity objects thingy not move when you stare too long. But yeah your visionwill kinda blur out when you don't see it jiggle
@Rhnvrma
2 жыл бұрын
how long do i have should i seek medical attention my glass power is increasing, I do not see image 3:33 jiggle. plz help
AWESOMENESS ❤️
great!
The animation was so great,I almost forgot to listen
In this video I learned more than in one week of school.
In order for that disc to show colors i think they have to get 60fps video?
Can you please do a video about Astigmatism?😊😊😊
can i see that other video of the lesson for another day now?
This is awesome
best channel on KZread 😍😍
If you don't see the colors on the disk just increase the video to 2X
that joy that was to be found in watching stationary leaves creepy me out when i pause the video at 4:27
No need to buy various lenses for long range or short range images. No focus issues or blur shots or bokeh shots or multiple exposures. No folder, tagging or disc space issues because I've already forgotten half of what I've seen. Not bad. I thank you eye.
Wait so we’re supposed to see less color on the outer region of our vision ? (3:00) or am I the only one that see colors even if the image is blurry ?
@ronaldjensen9919
4 ай бұрын
You're not the only one.