Zoomorph App finally launched!

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A basic version of the software is finally published as an iOS app! App in iTunes Although I have done...

Prairie Dogs speak color

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Not only do prairie dogs see color but they speak about them:http://m.npr.org/news/front/132650631?singlePage=true...
This report covers my research in Central Java, Indonesia for ZooMorph, from September 2009 through August 2010, conducted alongside my own related work as a Fulbright Fellow. The object of this ongoing research is locating individuals skilled in transformative arts-- in experiencing sensory phenomena as known by animals-- interacting with them, and recording conversations and events with them.
"Prior to an experiment the lizard was lightly anesthetized and immobilized by intramuscular injection of nembutal (0.01 mg á gA1)...

Enucleated

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"Eyes were enucleated from frogs and tadpoles of the species Rona after one hour or more of dark adaptation." from...

Are You a Tetrachromat?

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http://www.blogadilla.com/2008/06/08/are-you-a-tetrachromat/...
I think we finally got something that makes sense. The algorithm might still need some fine tuning but it is...

Non-Acuity

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After discussing human peripheral vision with my research assistants I made this mockup of how human peripheral vision might be...

Abigail A. Hughes

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Today I figured out the the full name of the elusive A. Hughes of the beautiful terrain theory of ganglion...

Less is More

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A while back I saw this interesting color blindness test: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~aaron/creative/colorTest.htm It reverses the test so that colorblind (dicromatic) people...

Dartnall's nomogram

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The template reflects Dartnall's hypothesis that pigment shapes are invariant when plotted on a wavenumber scale (Dartnall, 1953). The shape...

Complimentary Colors

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This seems very important: "In insects, results concerning complementary colours are up to now only described for the honeybee. Kª...

Nagual

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In Mesoamerican folk religion, a Nagual or Nahual (both pronounced [na'wal]) is a human being who has the power to...

Shapeshifting

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When a being has an ability to transform of its appearancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting...

Therianthropy

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Therianthropy (from n. therianthrope and adj. therianthropic, part man and part beast, from the Greek theríon, θηρίον, meaning "wild animal"...

Skinwalkers

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I am meeting with Walking Thunder next week. I will ask her about skinwalkers. In navajo tradition becoming animal seems...

Color Vision Test

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Nice online color vision test:http://www.spectralcolor.com/game/huetest_kioskI scored 8 on my first run (0 being the highest 1520 the lowest), I redidit...
Need to check this out later...http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TBT-475NW25-1&_user=112642&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1124423133&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000059608&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=112642&md5=98bdc5cab1f1620e85228371478c7849"" "Little more than a decade ago discussion that the eye of the vertebrates might...

Blue dots

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My new favorite aspect of vision is scotopic vision (actually mesopic vision, the mix between scotopic and photopic vision might...

Ommatidia

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One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other...

Doubt

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This is the most difficult project i have ever worked on. In so many ways. I don't know the programming,...
"Many stories are told about Alutiiq shamans (kala'alet). They could change into animal form, dive into the earth, or fly...
http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/2/831...

Geckos see colors at night

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111121543.htmhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1810110/...
Birds need 5-20 times more light than we do to see colors. I.e. their shift between photopic vision and scotopic...

Vision

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From www.etymonline.com: c.1290, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem...
If a large amount of birds fit into these two groups it is making the data collection much easier since...
I am reading The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred...

Mantis Shrimp

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Mantis shrimp sees two kinds of polarized light, linear and circular:http://harkerbio.blogspot.com/2009/01/mantis-shrimp.html...

Seeing like a saber toothed tiger?

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Watching a bad movie, Sabretooth, with some scenes in which we get to see through the eyes of the saber-toothed...
"This image (when viewed in full size, 1000 pixels wide) contains 1 million pixels, each of a different color. The...

Peripheral Vision

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As a way of understanding how we experience the periphery I modify photographs with gouache paint. I try to really...