Quality of the primate photoreceptor lattice and limits of spatial vision.

Quantitative analysis of a primate photoreceptor lattice shows that the foveal lattice is a highly regular hexagonal structure with a positional correlation length of at least 130 photoreceptors. This result indicates that the photoreceptor lattice is not sufficiently disordered to prevent aliasing in the fovea, but rather could provide the metric with which the visual system determines spatial separation even for tasks involving hyperacuity .