Author: Steve Parker
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781770858299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A highly readable guide to the evolution of color and vision in the natural world.
Author: Michael Land
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0191064866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about vision, the many times it has independently evolved in nature, and the astonishing variety of ways to see. The human eye, with a lens forming an image on a sensitive retina, represents just one. Scallops, shrimps, and lobsters all use mirrors in different ways. Jumping spiders scan with their front-facing eyes to check whether the object in front is an insect to eat, another spider to mate with, or a predator to avoid. Mantis shrimps can even measure the polarization of light. Animal eyes are amazing structures, often involving precision optics and impressive information processing, mainly using wet protein - not the substance an engineer would choose for such tasks. In Eyes to See, Michael Land, one of the leading world experts on vision, explores the varied ways in which sight has evolved and is used in the natural world, and describes some of the ingenious experiments researchers have used to uncover its secrets. He also discusses human vision, including his experiments on how our eye movements help us to do everyday tasks, as well as skilled ones such as sight-reading music or driving. He ends by considering the fascinating problem of how the constantly shifting images from our eyes are converted in the brain into the steady and integrated conscious view of the world we experience.
Author: Simon Ings
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780747592860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We spend about one-tenth of our waking hours completely blind - only one percent of what we see is in focus at any one time. You don't need eyes to see - blind volunteers have been taught to see through their chests. Through a spellbinding mix of scientific research, mathematics, philosophy, history, myth, anecdote and language theory, Simon Ings brilliantly unravels the never-ending puzzle of how and why we see in the way that we do. With the help of a beguiling mix of illustrated visual conundrums and enigmas, Ings triumphs with a compelling dissection of the eye's age-old mysteries that is both seriously interesting and interestingly fun.
Author: Josef Albers
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0300179359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory.
Author: Hazel Rossotti
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1985-07-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0691023867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses the scientific basics of matter, energy, and eye structure to discuss the colors of the natural world; the mechanics of color vision; color technology like ceramics and television; the uses of color for camouflage, signalling, symbolism, and conveying mood in art and language; refraction; rainbows; chlorophyll; color blindness; and more.
Author: Georg Glaeser
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783319371023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers’ curiosity about the diversity of visual organs. This book is the result of a dual approach – scientific as well as aesthetic. The compelling images are accompanied by an easy-to-read, understandable text, aimed at both scientists and the educated public, and generally anyone interested in the beauty of nature. Thanks to this combination, the book presents the staggering diversity of eyes in the animal kingdom and provides countless insights into the intriguing mechanisms at work – from simple pigment cups to independently flexible, telescopic, facet and lens eyes. Educational, exciting, entertaining till the last page, this is a book for anyone who is interested in evolution, nature and the miracle of life.
Author: Optical Society of America. Committee on Colorimetry
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew Parker
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780565093990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking the colours of the spectrum as his keys to the natural world, Andrew Parker shows that nature's palette is a far more miraculous thing than we had previously imagined. With fascinating examples of how colour has affected flora and fauna in different environments across the globe.
Author: David K. Lynch
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521468367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We live in a world of optical marvels - from the commonplace, but beautiful rainbow, to the rare and eerie superior mirage. Have you ever asked yourself how a rainbow is formed, why the setting sun is red and flattened, or even why the sky at night is not absolutely black? If so, then allow David Lynch to provide you with the answers. This beautiful and informative guide provides clear explanations to all naturally occurring optical phenomena seen with the naked eye. It offers complete and easy-to-understand insights into shadows, halos, water optics, mirages and a host of other spectacles. Separating myth from reality, it outlines the basic principles involved, and supports them with many figures and references. A wealth of rare and spectacular photographs, many in full colour, illustrate these phenomena throughout, with many helpful hints on how you can best observe and photograph them. Color and Light in Nature provides a complete, well-illustrated, and authoritative guide to seeing, photographing and understanding nature's optical delights.