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The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can't Even Imagine
When you view the world a certain way, it's easy to forget not everyone has the same vision.
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Process This Negative With Your Brain
Here's something that'll blow your mind (sorry that it's an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl's nose for 30 seconds, then quickly look at a white
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Contact lenses with night vision are coming
Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it's only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.
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What's Up With That: How Squinting Helps You See Better
Recently, I bellied up to a bar waiting for what seemed like an eternity to order my beer. It’s not that the place was busy, in fact the bartender was waiting for me. But I’d forgotten my glasses, so reading the tap list—hung high on the back wall—was slow going, even though it was written in six-inch chalk letters. Just before I made my choice, I caught a glance of myself in the back mirror. I was squinting like a sea captain steering through a gale. With wide open eyes, the list would have...
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Color Test - Online Color Challenge
1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. Take the online color challenge, based on the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test.
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This is how computers see porn
A programmer studies how computers detect nudity in images. For science.
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How Animals See the World
See through the eyes of cats, birds, fish, and snakes. By Elizabeth Preston.
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What are the limits of human vision?
From spotting galaxies millions of light years away to perceiving invisible colours, Adam Hadhazy explains why your eyes can do incredible things. By Adam Hadhazy.
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Humans see colour differently in the summer
Colour perception changes between seasons with humans seeing yellow as more green in the summertime. By Sarah Knapton.
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Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography using a Modulo Camera
This paper presents a novel framework to extend the dynamic range of images called Unbounded High Dynamic Range (UHDR) photography with a modulo camera. A modulo camera could theoretically take unbounded radiance levels by keeping only the least significant bits. We show that with limited bit depth, very high radiance levels can be recovered from a single modulus image with our newly proposed unwrapping algorithm for natural images.
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The Obscure Neuroscience Problem That’s Plaguing VR
Virtual reality has a less-than-obvious problem with how your eyes focus called vergence-accommodation conflict.
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Why The World Isn’t As It Seems
Take a close look at the floor tiles in the scene below. First, focus your attention on the tile directly below the potted plant, in the shadow of the table. Then, look at the tile to the right, outside of the table. Which of these tiles is brighter? The left one? By Claire Cameron.
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The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images
The skin, like a cloak, covers us all over, the oldest and the most sensitive of our organs, our first medium of communication, and our most efficient of protectors. The whole body is covered by skin. Even the transparent cornea of the eye is overlain by a layer of modified skin. The skin also turns inwards to line orifices such as the mouth, nostrils, and anal canal. In the evolution of the senses the sense of touch was undoubtedly the first to come into being. Touch is the parent of our eyes.
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Can These Glasses Help The Colourblind? We Put EnChroma To The Test
A company called EnChroma has built a pair of glasses that claims to restore colour vision for the colourblind. Predictably, the internet has erupted with excitement. But it’s not the first... By Diane Kelly and Maddie Stone.
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The $75,000 problem for self-driving cars is going away
Giving a car “eyes” once cost a fortune. Now it’s affordable, a good sign for autonomous vehicles. By Matt McFarland.
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Image Shows How Dolphins See People
What does a submerged man look like to a dolphin? A new image reveals what a marine mammal saw. By Jennifer Viegas.
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Built-in compass helps birds find their way home
The mechanism that allows birds to see the Earth's magnetic field is closer to being understood. Viviane Richter reports. (Dec. 7)
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Vermeer as scientist
Claudia Swan reviews Laura J. Snyder’s “Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing.”
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The Neuroscience of Ghosts
People do ‘feel’ spirits, but why? By Rick Paulas.
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Magnetoreception molecule found in the eyes of dogs and primates
Cryptochromes are light-sensitive molecules that exist in bacteria, plants and animals. In animals, they are involved in the control of the body's circadian rhythms. In birds, cryptochromes are also involved in the light-dependent magnetic orientation response based on the Earth's magnetic field...
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