By Heather Spears
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Is there a uniform blur and fadeout, or a sharpness, or a shimmering? Are some areas of the periphery different from others? T Again, go through the stages of this exercise. Remember that you are practising a new method of seeing, and it may take several tries. The elementary rule is not to shift your gaze. If you do ‘lose it’, simply close and reopen your eyes and begin again. Drawing the peripheries Making drawings of the peripheries verifies this act of attention. ’ Prepare to make some drawings.
There is still no agreed theory on how depth perception works – how the visual system actually does it, though much research is going on. It is closely linked to the work of deconstructing into line, where information passes through layers of the cortex triggering off orientation cells selective for different angles – the idea of angles seems to hold the key. The cells being studied are called disparity selective cells. They are found in V1, activated by stimulus from both eyes, and are repeatedly represented in other areas.
Rods are also slower to respond to bright light, and can easily get overloaded – this explains your experience, when drawing in the peripheral mode, of a disturbing pitch of visual ‘noise’ from the overhead lights, windows or reflections in the floor. Rods are also slowest to recover from a flood of brilliance – we have all noticed how going out into bright light ‘bleaches’ the world of colour and tone for a short time, and has to be adjusted to. The reverse is true when you set off at night into the woods and have to wait for your eyes ‘to get used to the dark’.