Entries for October, 2005

A Thought Experiment On Retinal Design

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Consider a thought experiment as to how the retina of the eye might have been organized from first principles. It would be a given that a library of pigment molecules sensitive to the various wavelengths of the visible spectrum (leading to the formation of an array of “laboratory-like spectrometers”) was not available. [… More»]