Comment by thelastgallon
1 year ago
> Just like in humans, if visual input is distorted, a chick’s eyes grow too large, resulting in myopia. And it’s progressive. Blur leads to eye growth, which causes more blur, which makes the eye grow even larger, and so on.
So, all the disney/cartoon characters with BIG eyes are myopic?
I guess Alita: Battle Angel and actresses Cristin Milioti and Ella Purnell are also myopic!
(Joking aside, is there any correlation between large eyes and myopia?)
It's more about aspect ratio: Overly long/deep eyes are more myopic, so cartoon/anime eyes are likely hyperopic instead!
I'm getting confused. I thought most of my teenage and adult life that it's been settled that "sitting close to the TV causes myopia" and "reading a lot of things causes myopia" and generally "looking a lot at things close to you causes myopia" was total bullshit, up there with "looking at microwave oven while it's active causes myopia".