Questions to be addressed in class

 

 

How do we see?  

 

Laser Speckle

 

Class Activities about the Eye

 

 

What are the parts of the eye and how do they affect what we see?

 

 

The eye and the retina

 

Seeing Your Retina

 

Anatomy of an Eye

 

Parts of the eye quiz

 

Image Formation 

 

Peripheral Vision

 

 

How do we see color?

 

Color Vision 

 

 

What is color blindness?

 

Color Blindness test 

 

Color test 

 

Why do we have two eyes?

 

3-D Vision

 

What are near-sightedness and far-sightedness?

 

 Near and far sightedness

 

 

How does the eye send its information to the brain?

 

Tricks of the Eye

 

Blind Spot

 

Map your blind spot

 

Magic Wand

 

 

How does the brain interpret the information sent to it by the eye?

 

Master Eye Slave Eye

 

Cardboard Tube Syllabus

 

Vision Experiments

 

Cheshire Cat

 

Depth Spinner

 

Basketball Video

 

Visual Cognition Studio

 

What are optical illusions and how do they work?

 

Crater Illusion

 

Afterimage

 

Bird in the Cage

 

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

 

Eyetricks.com

 

The Greenhouse

 

 

 

 

Other Interesting Websites about Eyes, the Brain, and Perception

 

Common Eye Diseases and Disorders

 

Size Constancy

 

Benham's Disk

 

National Eye Institute

 

Physlink

 

 

Art & Perception

 

M C Escher

 

Art and Memory