Funny how we see the world in landscape, but live it mostly in portrait.

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• ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Strong Jayden Smith vibes here

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• Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, we see the world in

  correct diagram of human visual field

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  • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure what you mean with “live mostly in portrait”. Can you give an example?

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  • _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Poah, ok let’s do this:

    • reading a book
    • interacting with your smartphone
    • using the fridge
    • standing in an elevator
    • street signs
    • restaurant menus
    • tapping someone on the shoulder (vertical not horizontal interaction)
    • looking at paintings
    • standing in line
    • observing a statue
    • interacting with your closet
    • looking someone up and down
    • etc, etc, etc

    Just some I could come up with on the fly

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    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      a spectacularly healthy dose of cherry-picking with this one.

      what about watching movies at the cinema? playing video games on the tv? train carriages? the back seat of a car? double beds? panoramas? the horizon? a computer’s qwerty keyboard? side-by-side boobs? side-by-side arms? the ending shootout of the good, the bad, the ugly? thw viewscreen of the starship enterprise? car windscreens? baby got back? landscape paintings?

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most of those are quite specific actions and they don’t really up to “most of our lives”.

      For example I spend at least 8hours watching on wide-screen at work (and a couple more observing landscape screens at home). Reading books, using the fridge, elevators and reading menues or observing statues doesn’t really add up to anything close to that.

      Also some examples are a big confusing. Street signs are usually round, square or … landscape. Generally when in traffic you’ll be observing everything in landscape.

      I think most people (at least me) are mostly living in landscape.

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    • Michal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Text in a book is horizontal, also an opened book is most often wider than tall - so it’s in landscape too. It’s only in portrait when it’s closed so it’ll take up less space on the shelf - which is also horizontal.

      You can use smartphone in landscape too, but it’s not as convenient to hold, and read text. But for watching video, you bet I’ll rotate it to landscape.

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    • lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Open a picture on your cell phone. Any portrait picture. Now look at it. Do your eyes focus on the whole picture? No, you focus on a portion of it at a time. It doesn’t matter that the orientation is vertical, the frame of your focus is the same no matter what you look at.

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s an interesting observation. We observe the world in landscape because our eyes are positioned to give us a goid balance between binocular vision and seeing predators in our peripheral vision, but most of our interactions are portrait, I suspect due to our upright posture. Most of the instances you mentioned are with things that either are, or are evolutiobs if things that were, designed around the fact we are talker than we are wide.

      It would be interesting to observe whether animals with a different posture interact differently.

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• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alright, I go to work, my house and playing football.

  All these things are in landscape. I know my shower is in portrait, which makes this post oddly good in this sub, but the rest of my rooms are also wider than tall.

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  • _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes - but have you been on your smartphone lately? Have you read a book? Looked in the mirror? Interacted with your vertical (hopefully not too horizontal) girlfriend / boyfriend? Sometimes I feel like the human eye is too limited upwards / downwards.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure what you mean with “live mostly in portrait”. Can you give an example?

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  • D_C@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Certainly.
    I’ve hidden lots of cameras around your house and the screens that I use to watch you are in portrait configuration.
    Hope that helps. Also, you’re running low on shampoo.

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