Analysis of the eyeball model through the prism of the laws of Newtonian mechanics

Abstract

Applications of human visual function modeling are particularly useful in medical or facial recognition, communications or entertainment studies, but in any of the fields the modeling results shorten and optimize specific procedures, bringing an increase in efficiency. Optical, mechanical or electrical modeling’s of the visual system, as well as the thermodynamic approach of the surface contact phenomena at the level of the eyeball are currently mechanisms for understanding and determining the functioning of the visual process. All these results support the need to build complex and modularly connected models through which the user can implement particular cases and obtain answers to different situations. Thus, in the first part of the paper are presented, synthetically, aspects related to normal eye movements and visual dysfunctions that can introduce spatial and temporal limitations of binocular balance. The approach from the point of view of the Newtonian mechanics of the synergistic movement of the eyeballs can be considered efficient for obtaining the laws of motion of the eyeball in relation to its connections in the structure of the elastic supporting elements. The second part of the paper focuses on the implementation of a methodology for analyzing eye movements by developing an eyeball model based on the principles of mechanics and considered as a solid with a fixed point and which is operated with elastic and damping elements. The third part of the paper presents the observations and conclusions on the development of this model for exemplifying eye movements. This model is found to be necessary for understanding the set of information to be transformed by the retinal sensory surface and transmitted to the visual cortex for analysis and processing.