The Persistence of Vision
The idea of moving images being perceived as a phenomenon of the eye is rather interesting to me. I have always thought of moving images as just the ability of the eye to see several images at the same time. This notion however reveals the true ability of the human eye, which in par is the ability of the eye to allow the brain to retain one image for a longer amount of time disabling the view of the black flat image between each frame. This relates to a form of memory, the perception I receive from this idea is that the human eye does not really play the complete role in the moving image, but rather the ability of the human brain to remember the previous image that allows for motion to be recognized. Nonetheless, the human eye has to play some kind of a role for our brain to remember the image.
This somehow relates to illusions and reminds us of how incredible a phenomenon the persistence of vision really is. It challenges us into wondering if all moving images are illusions and If everything we see in relation with moving images are just pigments of our imagination. For example the image provokes the brain into combining two different images to create a single illusion. This is confusing, yet scary in so many ways. The very concept of our eyes and brains being able to create something as bizarre as that is hard to intake. Nonetheless, it could justify any of our questions about animation as an invention itself. In other words, the lesson learnt from the persistence of vision is that animation would cease to exist if the human eye and brain did not work the way it did. In my opinion, this idea misconstrues our everyday perception of what our eyes can really do. I do believe that this idea is somewhat justifiable, but what I do not understand is why it is so hard to explain or even understand.
What in actuality is an illusion and what is reality?
