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Seeing : how light tells us about the world /

"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 happe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cornsweet, Tom N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.