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Subject: Re: [OM] Pixel Wars - The Next Generation
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:36:28 -0500
And camera makers are now trying the same post-processing tricks.

Chuck Norcutt

usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hah,
> Reminds me what von Helmholtz said---if an instrument maker sent him 
> the human eye--he would send it back.  Much CA--may answer why so few 
> short wavelength cones exist---probably only used for color 
> determination with the more predominant yellow end used for higher 
> resolution data.  What really matters of course is the final 
> constructed image the brain reconstructs of the external world, not the 
> retinal image---seems the Great Instrument Maker fixes it in post.
> 
> Mike
> 
> http://sirl.stanford.edu/~bob/teaching/pdf/arth202/Mollon_ColourArtScience_sm.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This is an example of why the eye is a rather imperfect, but highly
> optimised
>> design, despite what old creationists used to claim about godly
> design
>> perfection in the eye!
>>
>> see curves here: http://www.wendycarlos.com/colorvis/conecurv.jpg
>> and discussion of opsins here :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopsin
>> Tim Hughes
> 
> 
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