Abstract

This is a theoretical investigation of how involuntary eye movements may affect the visual image. Saccades introduce transients for all but very low spatial frequencies. These transients may be important for brief periods of time, but do not affect decisions based on long-time averages. Drift and tremor distort high spatial frequencies, but have little or no effect on images having low spatial frequencies. Both of these movements can radically alter an image, but not if the image contains low spatial frequencies and only if it exhibits exactly appropriate temporal frequencies.

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