A basic version of the software is finally published as an iOS app! App in iTunes Although I have done...
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)...
"Eyes were enucleated from frogs and tadpoles of the species Rona after one hour or more of dark adaptation." from...
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...
After discussing human peripheral vision with my research assistants I made this mockup of how human peripheral vision might be...
Today I figured out the the full name of the elusive A. Hughes of the beautiful terrain theory of ganglion...
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...
The template reflects Dartnall's hypothesis that pigment shapes are invariant when plotted on a wavenumber scale (Dartnall, 1953). The shape...
This seems very important: "In insects, results concerning complementary colours are up to now only described for the honeybee. Kª...
In Mesoamerican folk religion, a Nagual or Nahual (both pronounced [na'wal]) is a human being who has the power to...
When a being has an ability to transform of its appearancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting...
Therianthropy (from n. therianthrope and adj. therianthropic, part man and part beast, from the Greek theríon, θηρίον, meaning "wild animal"...
I am meeting with Walking Thunder next week. I will ask her about skinwalkers. In navajo tradition becoming animal seems...
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...
My new favorite aspect of vision is scotopic vision (actually mesopic vision, the mix between scotopic and photopic vision might...
One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other...
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...
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...
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 sees two kinds of polarized light, linear and circular:http://harkerbio.blogspot.com/2009/01/mantis-shrimp.html...
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...
As a way of understanding how we experience the periphery I modify photographs with gouache paint. I try to really...