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Comment by randyrand

6 days ago

Square sensors ought to be more common because they maximize the field of view for a given lens. Well, apart from circular sensors.

Human eyes have a viewport that's like a mailslot, though. A lot of screens are a compromise between area and a movie screen like wide immersive image.

CRTs might have actually liked being nearly hemispherical because glass and deflection-from-center.