I can’t think of a clear way of asking this as a question, so I’ll just explain what I’m getting at.
I’m currently typing this on my 15.6 inch screen laptop. Said screen about 18 inches from my face. To the right of the screen (my right), in the background is my 32 inch HD television. I’d guess it’s about 6 feet away from my face.
The way I’m sat/laying means I can compare both screens side by side in my vision, and the laptop screen is maybe 20% bigger… you can probably see where I’m going with this…
So lets say both screens are the same resolution, although they’re not - lappy is 1080p and tv is 720p… but lets say they were.
Am I really seeing things better and clearer on the laptop, given it’s bigger to my eyes? Or is there some form of perception/physics based tomfoolery going on that my brain can’t fathom?
Take it a step further… if I watch a movie on my 4.3 inch screen mobile phone… and hold it close to my face so that it’s again ‘bigger’ than the tv in the background…
Is it really ‘bigger’? It still seems easier to watch the same thing on a larger screen - but that could just be old habits tricking me into believing it’s better.
Does actual distance change how our eyes receive light? Does zooming on something close and in the distance warp how it actually appears, given the same relative size visually?
Oh, I’m not long or short sighted either… just confused.