Same effect is seen with LED brake lights or even Christmas lights... they appear to flicker if you are moving when you look at them, particulary if they are in your peripheral vision field.
I'm particulary sensitive to this; back in the days of CRT monitors I could not use any with a refresh rate of less than about 75Hz without being consciously aware of the flicker.
I'll bet you see rainbow artifacts on every last one-chip DLP/LCoS and yellow flashes on plasma, too.
On topic, the second thing I noticed (after the bloody obvious flicker even with no eye movement) was a pattern marking the boundary between the two halves of the images. Then I remembered that I was running my retina display at a higher than native resolution, and scaling of course introduces artifacts at edges.
Besides, who doesn't love 10% CPU usage to display a static image?
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Same effect is seen with LED brake lights or even Christmas lights... they appear to flicker if you are moving when you look at them, particulary if they are in your peripheral vision field.
I'm particulary sensitive to this; back in the days of CRT monitors I could not use any with a refresh rate of less than about 75Hz without being consciously aware of the flicker.
I'll bet you see rainbow artifacts on every last one-chip DLP/LCoS and yellow flashes on plasma, too.
On topic, the second thing I noticed (after the bloody obvious flicker even with no eye movement) was a pattern marking the boundary between the two halves of the images. Then I remembered that I was running my retina display at a higher than native resolution, and scaling of course introduces artifacts at edges.
Besides, who doesn't love 10% CPU usage to display a static image?