protectthehornet;
I believ much has been learned about the eye since ansel
No doubt, but not sure of your point. That the eye is better than that? Perhaps, but you don't say how so.
The wake-of-a-ship example is the same as the birds-on-a-wire example which was always the case and not the result of new learning in the physiology of the eye and doesn't change the 100th-of-an-inch resolution or so, capability.
Anyway, all fwiw.