[watsisname]

Weeeird, that's very interesting.  It sounds like it might be a similar concept to how our brains "fill in" the eye's blindspots.; even with one eye open it's difficult to notice how large of an area (~10° 5°) is actually blank.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, it's really odd. And how you don't notice that your eyes are in fact bouncing around crazily most of the time (saccades and whatnot.) Looking at someone's eye motions while they read a book with an eyetracker on is like watching epileptic spaghetti falling out of a jet plane.

Of course the brain processes the motion out so we think our vision is stable.

[redsniper]

If you ever find yourself having an eye floater, reading a book in relatively bright light can be maddening. Little frakkin speck moving back and forth, back and forth, back and

[Mika]

Very, very little of your visual field is actually received in color. Most of it is actually just filled in by your brain. Like most of your perception, in fact - it's built off sketchy information by some very extensive neural algorithms.

Field of view usually relates to the angle that you see, in this case ~ 210 degrees. Not the actual image on the retina... Hence my comment on what you actually meant with it.

Yes, the image on the retina is often of poor quality, with the exception of the small, sharp vision region. However, I still see colors at the limiting angles whether or not the retina has cells sensitive to them.

[General Battuta]

You 'see' them, sure, but they're not exactly accurate. Have somebody hold up colored items in your peripheral vision while you fixate (you must fixate, don't cheat!) on something straight ahead. You won't do too well.