Textbooks and Glossaries
Title: Visionary:
A dictionary for the study of vision
By: Lars Liden
Description: A dictionary of vision terminology. There are lots of graphics,
so this page is not recommended for those with slow connections.
Title: The
Joy of Visual Perception
By: Pete Kaiser, York University, Toronto, Canada
Description: An online textbook on visual perception. It has a concise table
of contents, a good glossary, and lots of diagrams. It even has an option to
email questions to the prof who built the page.
Visual System
Title: Webvision:
The Organisation of the Vertebrate Retina
By: Helga Kolb, Eduardo Fernandez, and Ralph Nelson
Description: A comprehensive discussion of retinal organisation. If you want
to know about the retina, here it is. This site is well organised, well written,
and has lots of beautiful pictures.
Title: Tricks
of the Eye, Wisdom of the Brain
By: Serendip
Description: A readable explanation of the lateral inhibition network in your
retina.
Title: Seeing
more than your eye does
By: Serendip
Description: Another readable explanation, this time of the blindspot in your
visual field.
Title: Cow's
Eye Dissection
By: The Exploratorium
Description: Step by step photos, accompanied by discussion, of a cow's eye
being dissected. There's information on really basic eye anatomy here. Beyond
that, this is just outright cool.
Popular Concepts in Vision
Title: Sensation
and Perception Tutorials
By: John H. Krantz, Ph.D.
Description: Six tutorials covering such areas as Fourier analysis and receptive
fields.
Title: Mark
Newbold's Animated Necker Cube
By: Mark Newbold
Description: A great, and slightly unusual, demonstration of the Necker cube
effect. Check it out.
Title: The
Stereogram Page
By: Stereogram
Description: A collection of 3D stereograms. Load up an image, then cross your
eyes until they are fixating on a point somewhere between your nose and the
screen. If you find the right distance, a three dimensional image pops up.
Title: Magnitude
Estimation
By: Ben Bauer
Description: An explanation and illustration of the magnitude estimation technique
(which lets you measure the subjective perception of physical stimulus properties,
such as brightness, length, intensity, etc).