One might think of it as being very wild and woolly, far more unpredictable than a town where things tend to have nice tidy shapes and to be laid out in nice tidy lines. Which is true, but it is also true that there is a great deal of repetition in the jungle, certainly if is is made up of palm trees like this one.
One has the repetition of the trunks. All roughly the same size, shape and orientation. All having roughly the same surface texture.
One had even more repetition of the leaves, technically known as palmately compound, which seems fair enough on a palm tree. Repetition of both the compound structure and of the shape of the individual leaf. Or perhaps leaflet.
Is this repetition which one could exploit in compressing the image? Is the repetition exact enough, or would one need to introduce so many parameters and exceptions that one was not saving any space at all?
Maybe the brain is a bit more flexible and a bit more lazy. When you try to home in on one of the compounds, maybe it does not bother actually computing the whole image from the retina, that would take too long, rather it just takes a few samples and then joins up the dots, using a bit of randomisation for greater verisimilitude?
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