Ollock wrote:
I'm thinking maybe the level of visual acuity he's talking about is so damn good that it can't be measured using the normal scale. These guys can apparently resolve individual atoms or some such insanity.
Not individual atoms, but a great deal more than an average human could. Think of everything apparently smooth or monochromatic showing texture or blotchiness imperceptible to the ordinary eye, and being able to see the very fine details in textured surfaces, bringing us to the fact that:
Soap wrote:
A human brain would probably have difficulty coping with that amount of visual information, though.
Hence it being a disease, and the typical treatment being glasses which worsen your vision to the point of it not giving you a headache to look at anything.
I suppose it would be, physically, the result of a proliferation of cones and rods far beyond what is normal, though I have yet to decide whether they would even know what a cone or a rod is.