My favored eye is the right one and I had that lasered to perfect vision (it came out at about -0.25). Driving a car I can read road signs up to a hundred metres away ; ).
My left eye has been lasered to about -1.75 and works quite well for things closer up, eg the speedometer.
My brain is supposed to work out which image to use. It mostly does (took some time to get used to it).
I sometimes wonder whether I oughta had the two done the other way round. But then I may not be a graphic designer for the rest of my life…

“My favored eye is the right one and I had that lasered to perfect vision… My left eye has been lasered… My brain is supposed to work out which image to use.”

“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world’s first Bionic man.
Bert Vanderveen will be that man. Better than he was before.
Better … stronger … faster.”

David, thank you! I’m confused though: is the favored eye the one that didn’t leave the distant object, or the one that switched to the thumb?

Bert, lemme get this straight: you got your eyes intentionally lasered differently to be able to focus at different distances?! What’s with you man, eagle-envy? I mean, I did that once with the Hella lights on my 2002 (one pointing to the rearview mirror of the car in front and the other to the left side mirror - to blind slowpokes into submission), but your eyes?!

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Bert, that is both insane and fascinating!!!

I don’t get it.
I close both eyes and focus with my third.

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Yes, I’m old, OOoooohhhhmmmmmmm!

Nevermind my question - I get it now.

BTW, it turns out I’m right-eyed.
I hope that doesn’t mean I should be making chirographic type.

Also, I wonder what the stats are, and if they mirror handedness.

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“is the favored eye the one that didn’t leave the distant object, or the one that switched to the thumb?”

Well, north of the equator and on even numbered days while the moon is waxing, except during times of high barometric pressure and low humidity, …what do you mean which eye is it? The one you’re using… or is there a Hrant thing happening where something opposite it true ;)

I discussed it with the guy who did the lasering and it’s perfectly feasible. My intention was to postpone the need for reading glasses as long as possible (since I an working with stuff at arms length mostly, like books. monitors etc.).

He told me a ‘funny’ anecdote about the capabilties of the brain to adjust: seems that when older people that have cataracts have their natural lenses removed and exchanged for artificial ones are sometimes unable to discern distances at all, upto a year. Their brains can’t adjust as easyly anmore.
Since I don’t consider myself old yet, I was not to worried about this. ; )

Adapting to the ‘dual vision’ was quite easy and the sensation of being able to see sharply when going for a snacking spree in the middle of the night is still a thrill…
(I was L -7.0 and R -3.5, thereabouts).

Also, I wonder what the stats are, and if they mirror handedness.

My mom always said (and she read it in a study somewhere) that right-handed, left-eyed people are slower readers. She and I both fall into this category. I don’t know wheter to blame this for my slow reading speed or the short circuiting of my CNS… ;^P

Bert, that’s amazing. And it’s exactly the sort of thing that’s become impossible to pull off in the US: anything slightly outside the norm of the mass-produced, conveyor-belt “solution” is simply too much of a LIABILITY risk, too much… “life-overhead”. What a shame this fruitful opportunism, this zest for improvement is so quickly fading here - it’s exactly what has always attracted me to America.

Paul, interesting. Sounds like some of the stuff in “The Alphabet and the Brain”.

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Hrant, the way I see it, is that the guy (or gal) on the other side of the counter may be knowledgable and so on, but does not have my perspective. And as I am the one who pays (and thereby provides…) I have some say.
So I ask questions. And get answers other people may not get.
And between you and me (and 29 other users and 820 guests): I paid 4005 euro’s for the procedure and that’s a lot of incentive for anyone to listen…

Paul, I once tested as a fast reader (450 words plus a minute and 80% comprehension) BUT I still have a tendecy to misread figures. Right handed (but my left can hold it’s own!) and right-eyed. And what’s a CNS!

> as I am the one who pays (and thereby provides…) I have some say.

That’s certainly true here too - probably even more so. But the thresholds seem to be very different. So for example lasik is much cheaper here, but that’s because: people are looking after every penny; and the whole thing has been streamlined. The end result is if you want something different, you can get it, but you have to find somebody “special” and the price goes through the roof. Like bathroom tiles: if you’re a person with normal finances, your choices are limited to what I call the Draconian Color Trio: White, Black, Almond. “White, black, or almond, sir?”, “White, black, or almond, sir?”, that’s all they know how to say, repeatedly, until you break down and choose one. And Almond is a joke. You want a window installed that’s not a white-aluminun double-pane with FAKE divisions deal? Pay through the nose and wait a month. You want a deep tan fridge to replace the one in your old kitchen where everything is deep tan? Well, screw you, you eccentric but not-rich-enough freak. The whole thing is becoming an Infernal Average.

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CNS = Central Nervous System

Every October in Central Park there is a Falconery show and one speaker was talking about the Bald Eagle reentry program (They use to be all over the Hudson River). For four years they released 4 birds, all with tracking devices on them to tell where they went. The park they released them from is at the north end of Manhattan, I don’t remember the park. Well one Bald Eagle flew up to a branch and looked upriver and took off in a shot. One of the observers used his radio tracking to follow the eagle 12 miles up the Hudson where the eagle had seen another eagle and went to meet it.

Wow. But I believe it. Just as amazing as their acuity and color sensitivity (they can detect a rabit’s eye color from 1.5 miles away) is the fact that the lens in their eyes can morph at multiple points (as opposed to just getting globally thinner/fatter), which allows them full focus across their entire visual field. If humans had that we could read probably 3-4 times faster (not to mention have fewer car accidents). Like Sagan said, radiation is good for you.

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One thing I do know about my eyes is that my right eye is more sensitive to RED than the left. I found that out while color balancing at press runs matching ink with Pantone samples.

A famous Dutch biology professor used the weaknesses of the human as proof in a recent article — in essence he said that if there was a Divine Being who engineered Life he/she would have made a better model than that what we have turned into…

(On account of a widespread discussion about the ‘Intelligent Design’ theory that was caused by a remark of our minister of Education (sic!) here.)

Please do not use this post as a jumping off point for a discussion about Evolution versus etc.

Norbert, the latest issue of Eye had a great article about the japanese opthometrist who thought up AND handcreated those wonderful tests for colour blindness. Did you see that?

No, Bert, I didn’t see the article in Eye you are mentioning.

I was alway facinated with tests for color blindness, as there are many variants and types of color blindness. But I promise not to use this thread to spin off another topic.