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Re:Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an i... by kurosawa on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:53PM (#18852697)
Reminds me of old-school emission/extramission theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
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Re:Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an i... by aasasd on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:33PM (#18853166)
From that WP page: “Winer et al. (2002) have found evidence that as many as 50% of adults believe in emission theory,” sourced from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12094435?dopt=Abstract
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Re:Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an i... by bflesch on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:24AM (#18854795)
The linked paper actually refutes this number based on the experiments described. It suggests the number is closer to 5% of adults who knowingly believe in some sort of emission theory, directly arguing against the Winer et al. finding.
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Re:Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an i... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:04AM (#18854282)
That kinda sounds like raytracing.
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Re:Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an i... by samatman on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:07AM (#18854728)
It is raytracing!

Raytracing demonstrates that, although our physics and physiology work on raycasting, the 'visual ray' theory could be correct in some other hypothetical world.

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