This is pretty well known already: in Kendo, students are taught to monitor our opponent and attack when he blinks. Likewise, you need to be aware of your own blink and be prepared to defend yourself when you do.
That doesn't really sound like great advice. Human reaction time is about 200ms (http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html if you wish to verify this for yourself), whereas the blink duration is 100 to 150 ms. By the time you reacted the blink would be over.
Yes, it would be advantageous to begin your attack during an opponent's blink. However, the blink is faster than your reaction time. If you see him blink and react, his blink is over before you react. His eyes are open when your attack begins.
I wonder if blinking with one eye would be disruptive to the sterovision that is going on. An interesting test would be to train oneself to blink one eye at a time.
I think you answered yourself: stereovision support. The mental context-switch needed to go from stereo to mono to stereo again is probably more expensive than just going from stereo to nothing and back to stereo. I just tried it and closing one eye at a time made me sorta dizy.
"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
You've been blinking all your life, I'd think it obvious that on a subconscious level you would learn to time those blinks to come at the most opportune times.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 40.0 ms ] threadif you blink with both eyes, you are sure you missed something, if you only blink with one at the time, you will never know if you missed something.
(and besides only blinking with one eye at the time would look kinda silly :)
I wonder if blinking with one eye would be disruptive to the sterovision that is going on. An interesting test would be to train oneself to blink one eye at a time.
(disclaimer: not a trained eyetician ;-)
"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."