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On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:56:41 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> >> Gosh, you make it sound like our eyes weren=E2=80=99t designed to look=
 at
> >> an entire field of view. Do your eyes really have to physically
> >> travel from one side of the screen to the other? I normally leave
> >> mine inside my head, and use the rotation muscles that they come
> >> with to orient them in a range of directions. =20
> >
> > Those muscles like all others can tire. Mine tire with normal use
> > and I have only a 17 inch display. =20
>=20
> It=E2=80=99s not the eyeball-moving muscles that get tired. They are work=
ing
> essentially all the time (an appreciable part of each second, every
> second) while you=E2=80=99re awake, and even a lot of the time while you=
=E2=80=99re
> asleep.

The fact that they're semi-constantly active does not mean that some
patterns don't tire them out more than usual. If you doubt this, I will
cordially invite you to spend five or ten minutes shifting your gaze
from the far left to the far right and back - no moving your head,
that'd be cheating.

An extreme example, granted, but sufficient to illustrate the point:
eye travel isn't free.