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Seeing : how light tells us about the world / Tom Cornsweet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (x, 189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520967724
  • 0520967720
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seeing.DDC classification:
  • 152.14 23
LOC classification:
  • BF241 .C654 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Our idea of the physical world -- The basic anatomy of the eye -- How photoreceptors sense light -- Seeing things that aren't there -- Not seeing things that are there -- Brightness constancy -- Why the rate of unbleaching is important -- A little optics -- Optometrists, ophthalmologists, opticians : what they do -- Color vision -- Actually seeing and not seeing : neural mechanisms.
Summary: "This book answers questions about human vision that are often asked. Some of the answers explain the physics and physiology of the visual system with an emphasis on the forces that drive evolution, some illustrate and describe how to produce interesting visual phenomena, and much of what happens during a visit to an eye doctor is described and explained"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Our idea of the physical world -- The basic anatomy of the eye -- How photoreceptors sense light -- Seeing things that aren't there -- Not seeing things that are there -- Brightness constancy -- Why the rate of unbleaching is important -- A little optics -- Optometrists, ophthalmologists, opticians : what they do -- Color vision -- Actually seeing and not seeing : neural mechanisms.

"This book answers questions about human vision that are often asked. Some of the answers explain the physics and physiology of the visual system with an emphasis on the forces that drive evolution, some illustrate and describe how to produce interesting visual phenomena, and much of what happens during a visit to an eye doctor is described and explained"--Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2017).

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