VIDEO REFERENCE:
Workshop 4

HUMAN VISION and PERCEPTION

The Joy of Visual Perception: a Web Book

A useful resources containing information about photoreceptors and physiology of the visual system as well extensive information about perception.
http://www.yorku.ca/eye

Webvision: Photoreceptors

Exploration of photoreceptors and light from a site about retinas in vertebraes
http://insight.med.utah.edu/Webvision/photo2.html

Psychology of Perception

Psychlogy class lecture from Middle Tennessee State Univ.
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~pyskip/splec2.htm

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World

Extensive site from the Howard Hughes Medical Instiute. Includes sections on color vision, the visual pathway, color deficiency, and more.
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

Light and Color

Microscopy Primer on that explores various aspects of light including lenses and color.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/index.html

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

Optical Illusions

http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~dennisl/CMS/activity/optical.html

Sandlotscience.com Interactive Illusions

A collection of multimedia "impossible objects" and "ambiguous figures."
http://www.sandlotscience.com/whats_new.htm

IllusionWorks

A comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions
http://www.illusionworks.com/

Sensation annd Perception Tutorials

Includes illusions and visual effects in art. This site has extensive bibliographies for additional information.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/index.html

Illusions Central Station

Includes visual, auditory, and other types of illusion
http://www.heureka.fi/i/Illusions_ctrl_station.html.en

POINTILLISM and SEURAT

Web Museum: Seurat, Georges

Background and biography of Seurat
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/seurat/

Pointillsm Activity

http://www.keppel.k12.ca.us/KEPPEL/Almondale/pointillism.html

Biography of Seurat

Background of Seurat and pointillism from Arthistory.cc
http://www.arthistory.cc/auth/seurat/index.htm

Art Materpieces

Examples of Seurats work

http://www2.iinet.com/art/artists/major/s/seurat.htm

ANIMAL VISION

NOVA Online: Night Creatures of the Kalahari

Companion site to a the television program. Look at the section entitled Night Vision
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kalahari/

How Animals May See

Comparison of vision in different animals
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/umvelt.htm