Optics and Visual Perception

Meteorological optics will be found under Astronomy and Observation

Physiological Optics

• The Senses: The senses have common properties and origins
• The Eye and Visual Perception: How vision works
• Stereopsis: 3D from Wheatstone to the Autostereogram
• Anomalous Colour Vision: Why some people have different color perception
• Haidinger's Brush: The Eye Is Sensitive To Polarization
• Illusion: The Nature of Illusion
• Optical Illusions: Including a Kinetic Illusion
• The Horizon Illusion: A Clear Explanation Is Still Lacking
• The Searchlight Illusion: An Error of Interpretation

Physical Optics

• Marcel Minnaert: Light and Colour In The Open Air
• The Centered Paraxial Optical System: A Tutorial
• Optics Made Plane: The Optics of Plane Surfaces
• Spherical Mirrors: Including projective geometry
• Ray Animations: The Thin Lens and the Prism Animated
• Illumination: Lumens and All That; and Brightness in Images
• An Introduction to Optics: From the beginning
• The Optics Laboratory: Recommendations
• Measuring a Lens
• Ray Tracing
• Topics in Geometrical Optics
• Light in Crystals
• Interference and Diffraction in Optics
• Caustics Envelopes of rays and their properties.

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