Science in Focus: Shedding Light: Light Links
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 - 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 Illustions
- 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
Pointillism and Seurat
- Web Museum: Seurat, Georges
Background and biography of Seurat
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/seurat/ - Pointillism: Seurat's Grande Jatte and Circus
Comparision of two styles of painting
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/jatte.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