TEXTBOOK READING: This Gallery combines items from Seeing the Light Chapter 5, Forming the Image, pp. 144-158 Chapter 7, Processing the Image, pp. 181-206; and Chapter 8, Binocular Vision and the Perception of Depth, pp.207-237.
This Seeing the Light Chapter relates the similarities and differences between eye and cameras, which are quite surprising and interesting in the optical and light-sensitive departments.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING:
Click on the titles below to open a new window of text to supplement the book, gleaned from a variety of sources, some even written by yours truly. They are presented in the order in which they would be introduced in the class lecture.
EYE ANATOMY: For taking notes on what each part of the eye does.
DENOYER GEPPERT EYEBALL MODEL: Gleaned from a catalog from a company in Chicago, I never could convince any department heads to cut loose with the funds for this! Catalogs of Denoyer-Gepperts full line of anatomical models were passed around in class, click here to see the latest incarnation.
LINDBERG EYE: Instruction sheet for the eyeball model the budget-minded professor schleps to class.
RETINAE: What mine look like!
ACCIDENT VICTIM'S VIEW: Answers the chilling question of what happens when a high power laser beam enters the eye.
LASIK: Not for the faint of eyeball.
SNELLEN: Everyone's favorite eye test.
2020 Eye: An alternative eye testing device brought into class.
AMBIGUOUS DEPTH CUES: Tricks for making flat artwork appear three-dimensional, to be filled in during class or copied from the book.
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS: Over a hundred from various sources for your viewing pleasure.
OPTICAL ILLUSION DECK: 52 Illusions, with explanations. May need to rotate in your pdf Reader.
STEREO DEVICES ILLUSTRATED: To coincide with examples of each of the major categories of devices that were brought into class.
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Forward to Chapter Six, Optical Instruments