Noise in Human Vision & Image Perception @SKYST0RY
Noise in Human Vision & Image Perception  @SKYST0RY
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In some circumstances, people may perceive visual noise with the naked eye. A person told me this means we should leave noise in our images to keep them truer to human perception, arguing that images without noise look artificial. But is this actually so? To find the answer, we should first understand the nature of noise in human vision.

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