Human vision is 30μm at 10cm — just shy of seeing individual cells
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-03
A short musing: human visual resolution is about 30μm at the 10cm focal point, only slightly above what's needed to see individual cells. The author wonders how different the history of science would be if our eyes were just a bit sharper.
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