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What Is the Estimated Digital Visual Bandwidth of a Human Being?

CSEF · 2004 Mathematics & Software

Indigo Prizm · Spring Hill Advanced Elementary School, Santa Cruz

Overview

Objectives/Goals My goal was to find a estimated digital visual bandwidth for a person. My investigative question was: what is the estimated digital visual bandwidth of a human being? Having had no experience in this kind of science prior to my project, I did not have a hypothesis for the total bandwidth. I did however, have a hypothesis for the second part of my field of vision test. I predicted that the shape for someone's field of vision would be the shape of half of a penut shell. Methods/Materials For my project, I used the folloing items: a laptop computer, twenty-two pieces of wood, and about forty screws. First I found out the field of vision. Then I wrote down that number. Next I found out the color depth, and wrote down that number too. After that I found out the video frame rate, and multiplied all my numbers together. Results My result for the field of vision test contradicted, because the shape for the field of vision was actually an ellipsoid, not a peanut. Conclusions/Discussion This helps because you can make a completely blind person see, if you directley stimulate the visual cortex by programming a machine to take in a certain amount of bits/second.

Summary statement

My project is about finding what the estimated digital visual band width of the average person is, so that someone could build a machine to make a completely blind person see.

Help received

My father bought the supplies, helped me find the area of an ellipsoid, and helped with my general display at the science fair at school.

Competition history

  • CSEF 2004 Mathematics & Software · Entry J1217

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