Alright, so I messed around with this “horse vision” thing, and let me tell you, it was a bit of a wild ride. I heard somewhere that horses see the world differently than us humans, and I got curious. So, I decided to see if I could simulate it somehow.
First, I gathered a bunch of pictures. You know, just regular everyday stuff – a street scene, my messy living room, the park near my house. Then, I started digging around online to figure out how horses’ eyes actually work.
It turns out, they have this wide field of view, almost 350 degrees! But they also have a blind spot right in front of them. Also, their color vision isn’t as good as ours. They see more blues and greens but struggle with reds.
So, armed with this knowledge, I fired up my trusty old image editing software. The first thing I did was stitch together a couple of photos to create a panoramic view. It looked kinda weird and distorted, but I figured it was a good starting point to mimic that wide field of view.
- Created a panoramic.
- Added a blind spot.
- Desaturated the reds.
Next, I added a blurry area right in the middle of the image to simulate that blind spot. That was a bit tricky to get right, but after a few tries, I think I got it pretty close.
Then came the color part. I messed around with the color balance, reducing the reds and boosting the blues and greens. It took some time to make it look somewhat natural and not some kind of weird alien landscape.
After all that, I finally had something that I think roughly approximates how a horse might see the world. It was a lot of work, and the results were, well, interesting.
The End Results
Everything looked wider and more distorted, especially at the edges. The blind spot was definitely noticeable, and the colors were muted, with a lot less red.
Honestly, it made me appreciate my own human vision a whole lot more. It’s easy to take it for granted, but seeing the world through a horse’s eyes, even a simulated one, really puts things in perspective. It was a fun little project, though, and I learned a thing or two along the way!
