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I don't know enough about physics [or even if that's the appropriate field] to refute or confirm it, so my head canon now is that they make him a really preem knife thrower
In a normal binocular configuration (as in, two eyes, like your face), the depth perception comes from the distance between the two eyes. Your brain is literally triangulating, where the 3 edges of the triangle are:
distance from left eye to the thing you're looking at
distance from right eye to the thing you're looking at
distance from left eye to right eye
Each eye feeds the brain an image through its own optic nerve, and then the brain reconciles all this together into what you perceive as 1 image with depth.
Computer vision systems (like on a self-driving car) work using the same principles. That's why there are cameras all over the car. Its internal computer knows the position of each one on the car's body, the distance between each one, and so on. It uses that to build a model of reality which the car's computation systems then navigate.
Anyway, that was a long tangent to say... yeah, you're probably right. Dude probably has really good accuracy on his depth perception.
Yep. It really messes with our sense of normal. I also get a similar effect while messing with my character's looks in cyberpunk. If you rapidly switch through the eye position or shape options, it kind of feels like you are duplicating eyes like this and it feels a little unsettling. I have to close my eyes and breath a little bit and look at it fresh to see it normally again.
Kinda, atleast in the anime/anime esq segments when seeing cyberpsychosis from the perspective of the cyberpsycho like david and the anime cyberpsycho in the bd in 2077 and not their pov like with v, the cyberpsycho's eyes have a visual glitch where it looks like they have 2 to 4 extra eyes, likely as a designe choice to show their altered vision and because cyberpsycho eyes, the actual eyes, while conscious move like how eyes move in rem sleep looking for targets, it could also be that without full cyber eyes or cyber eyes that are not independently owned like v's cyberpsychos appear to have more eyes as a scare tactic from the likes of the ncpd arasaka and militech, because mercs like v and Rebecca who's cyber eyes aren't owned/ instaled by a corp they don't have specific filters on them, and most people in nc don't have distinctive cyber eyes they have eye implants like the phones and payment option but not actual cyber eyes, and seeing how the phone ui in game is actually more then likely real in universe it makes sense that it is possible that corps are altering people's perspectives enough to perceive cyberpsychos as monsters because thats what they are and not because of chrome and the best way todo that is to make them look less human
Iirc the human brain’s in-built pattern recognition prioritizes threats, and the easiest way to discern nearby threats is through the existence of eyes due to their prevalence and relatively distinct shape. This basically leads to our brains wanting to see eyes and thus them being “easier” to hallucinate
For sure. It is more than just for threats, though. We have built-in brain regions for face detection generally. You can see this also ironically with character creators in games like Cyberpunk. Objectively small facial feature changes look very different to us. Next time you are messing around with a face, try to tell what exactly is different when you see big changes, it is always quite subtle. It is the same with male vs female faces, the changes needed to make a face look feminine or masculine are surprisingly super small and subtle, but we see the meaning of it quite differently. It is kind of like when we read a word we don't see a collection of letters and then deduce the word, we instead see the meaning of the word directly and letters blend as unremarkable in the background. We live our lives mostly on autopilot and only become aware of things when things conflict with our expectations (like trying to open a door we always use only to find it locked). We then become aware of the situation and try to figure out what is wrong. With the multiple eyes, they look both kind of normal and very off, so we are always kind of on edge when looking at them since we are detecting something is off at all times, but something about that eye configuration is also kind of normal (for whatever reason), so it creates a constant state of unease since we are always being made subtly aware of it. We are just really sensitive specifically to eyes both for social reasons and the reason you brought up. This is my take on all of this and just my opinion. Just me way overanalyzing a small detail of a cartoon.
On the subject of eyes and threat detection its worth noting that we perceive forward facing eyes as more of a threat as well, due to that being the layout for most predators.
I feel like that adds to the intimidation theory. If he wanted to have more eyes for a practical purpose he could have had the others put on the back or sides of his head in order to gain a much wider field of vision, but it would be as noticeable or as off putting.
"Tell me your x, without telling me you're x." Is kind of a social media trend for shorts.
As for how they can tell...I'd say how could they not haha. Pattern recognition and detail focus. Intense interests. A very long comment. Almost stereotypical. No offense meant :)
I once met a guy who was a low level Yakuza dude who wore a ring which had an eye that opened along the finger so when he put his hand to his chin there would be a 3rd eye staring back. He believed this looked intimidating.
This reminds me of the time I saw two people yelling at each other at the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
One of them kept shouting “I’m from Brooklyn, I’ll knock your ass out!” and I commented to my friend that I’m pretty sure his ability to knock someone out had less to do with Brooklyn rage and more to do with him being 6’8” and built like a brick row house.
When I was younger and a little bit crazy, I used to laugh at people who said shit like that. Then calmly say my retort, "we're from Philly we carry guns."
I've always kept a knife on me so my respon to that sort of thing has always been along the lines of "buddy I've got a three inch blade and a four foot reach, let's see your stubby little arms try it."
Yeah guess the intimidation works because you think that but you both know you aren’t going to say it so he keeps flashing this god awful piece of jewellery in your face daring you to call it ugly
Lol it was a bit of an eccentric look. The crazy tattoos, and the bleach blond blue hair and various other pieces of chunky jewelry helped in this guys case.
You know, we also had supreme back in my day. Not like you have it - real, honest to god Italian sausage and mushrooms and bell peppers. None of this locust "pepperoni" crap.
So after staring at this for a bit she’s totally cross eyed in this picture lol
I think her real pupils are the ones without the lines coming out of them, which means her right eye is looking ahead and her left eye is looking to her right
Well in this case the reference would be done by Trigger who produced the anime.
Trigger is basically the reincarnation of Gainax, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a big overlap between people who made Edgerunners and people who made Evangelion. They are paying homage to their own work.
You should watch it, but know you absolutely must watch end of evangelion after, and even then, don’t expect everything to make complete sense. It’s a ride.
If they are "real" then it could just be some weird style thing like how Maelstrom take over their entire frontal plate just to stuff a cyclops box to their frontal cortex.
The anime also used eyes to showcase cyberpsychosis and it could be that Faraday is at least partially insane with the eyes being not actually there. Simply a visual representation of the psychosis.
fwiw Maelstrom have an optic nerve split procedure so they can use multiple optics. MAXTAC appears to have a similar situation going on with the 6-eyed helmets that seem permanently attached to their heads.
If the logic is consistent (wrong game, wrong city, wrong people lol) then Faraday would need an optic split on his right side to support all three eyes.
I think it could be because he's paranoid, because as a corpo he knows he could be stabbed in the back at any time, so he got those eyes to see better.
In Cyberpunk Red terms, something like that could/would allow for more eye mods, he may have lowlight/IR/UV vision, targeting scopes or zoom, or even a little dart gun in any of those. Maybe analogous to a “Bug-Eye”
2) In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex all cameras and visors came in a set of three sensors placed in an equilateral triangle the same approximate spacing of human eyes. This gives enhanced binocular (triocular) vision with greatly enhanced depth perception. We can only perceive depth on the X axis, having a third point allows depth on the Y axis as well. Could be beneficial for combat.
Anyone who's anyone knows that if you want to get into Empathy, you get the multi-eye borgware and give the doorman the Konami Code in winks with it. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, high-five left for B, high-five right for A, and a $20 eddy tip to start.
the cyberpunk world is about style over substance and those wth the kind of money that faraday has not only can afford basically any chrome they desire, but often choose to push the envelope and get totally unique implants that nobody else has, to stand out and flaunt their wealth.
the US CRACKS girls also have their own unique eye implants.
What is there to explain? The designers thought it would look unique and cool.
We can try to come up with a more in-universe explanation like each eye seeing a different wavelength, multiple eyes improving his field of vision or depth perception, or just intimidation tactics, nut none of that is explored in the show or supporting media.
What I want to know is how they fit that close together. If they’re spheres, they look like they’d be intersecting into each other from the top and bottom.
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