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The Eye
You Don't See in 4K. A great video about what we really see.
Three great tests of your color vision abilities
Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works.
Stem Cells, Blindness And Why The Media Loves Miracle Cures
What is the Resolution of the Human Eye? Watch host Michael Stevens take a lengthy stab at it.
View from the Peripheral Retina |
Actual view |
View from the Fovea |
The smile on the face of the Mona Lisa is so enigmatic that it disappears when it is looked at directly, says Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard.
Stare at the dot in the color picture. The second picture is grey the entire time. When you keep your eyes in the dot, the picture is seen in color. When you look elsewhere it returns to black and white. How does your mind put all those colors there?
See how David Williams uses adaptive optics to view cones in the human eye. How this technique can be used to study color blindness.
What an infant sees. From PBS. From the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.
Visit the Exploratorium Exhibits. Try the fading dot and the sliding grey step.
Colour vision emerged because it helped our ancestors to forage for food.
Individuals who are blind to some colours are sensitive to a "colour dimension" that is inaccessible to those with normal colour vision.
Common Eye Diseases and Disorders.
Ishihara Test for Color Blindness.
Run your picture through Vischeck.
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Simulated
image of vision in a person with deuteranopia (no
green sensitive cone). This leads to an inability in distinguishing
between red and green. |
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Simulated
image of vision with trinitarian
(no blue sensitive cone). This leads to an
inability in distinguishing between blue and yellow. |
Simulated
image of vision in a person with proletarian (no red
sensitive cone). This, just like deuteranopia,
leads to an inability in distinguishing between red and green. |
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Last updated March 16, 2020
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