Offered: Spring (biennial)
The course will explore the design of the human eye, revealing the optical and neural factors that limit color and spatial vision. The
design of eyes (such as those of predatory birds and the compound eyes of insects) that evolved to operate in environments different from
that of the human eye will also be examined. The course will begin with a treatment of the information losses associated with the eye's
optics, the photoreceptor mosaic, and the ganglion cell array that transmits visual information to the brain. The course will end with a
discussion of image processing by the visual cortex of the brain.
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