The author of this vision textbook on vision describes his work as non-traditional. Instead of a text supplemented by figures, he has given all of us a book with figures and diagrams supplemented by text. The text is a little fussy to navigate but there is a great deal of information provided. Even better, that information is provided in a writing style that students at all levels can understand. The author’s goal in writing this textbook is for readers to learn about their sense of vision and encourage them to find out more about visual perception. He suggests that his work could be a supplementary text for a curriculum course or a starting point for students doing research papers on vision.
Peter K. Kaiser is a retired York University professor. He is a visual scientist, not a physician. The text contains primarily non-medical related topics on visual perception. He does, however, provide a number of links within the text to related information provided by “medically qualified people.”
Chapter Titles from The Joy of Visual Perception
- Introduction & Glossary
- Questions for Prof. Kaiser
- Fun Things In Vision
- Master Diagram of the Eye
- Visual Acuity
- Visual Sensitivity
- Color/Color Vision
- Measuring Spectral Sensitivity
- Distance Perception
- Size Perception
- Shape Constancy
- Spatial Frequency Adaptation
- Adapting to Darkness and Lightness
- Motion Perception
- Physics of the Visual Stimulus
- Fourier analysis; basics
- Point & line spread functions
- Some Basic Neurophysiology
- Phototherapy
- Physiological Response To Color
- Interesting links
- Subject Index
- References
- Suggested Readings in Visual Perception
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