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Does not see anything that os larger than the field of view?

I can’t conceptualise this. How? Surely this is the same as humans where if you had a big enough uniformly lit object in front of you, you couldn’t “see” it?

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Imagine if you only see things if you can see their edges. (most eyes do edge detection in the retina before signals hit the visual cortex)

at least the model we used was behaving like this. It was making objects larger than it visible as a line and smaller visible as a whole (like coloring fill in MS Paint). Objects that fit in the eye were colored and larger were not. However this was a neural network model (shown in excel as a matrix) - I wonder where did he get it from. When I wrote the above, I tried to find it but couldn't

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