Health

A Bizarre Reason You Should Walk

Have you heard of optic flow? It’s one more reason for walking right for you.

Michael Hunter, MD
3 min readOct 24, 2020

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Optical flow is the apparent movement of objects caused by the relative movement between an observer and a scene. Photo by Perchek Industrie on Unsplash

Optical flow (optic flow) is “the pattern of the apparent movement of objects, surfaces, and edges in a visual scene caused by the relative movement between an observer and a scene.” For you, optic flow is the motion pattern created by your…

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Michael Hunter, MD

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com