Rethinking the Process of Vision
A New Explanation for Light Interaction with the Retina of the Eye and the Vision Process
This BBC video above "Colorful Notions" from 1985 first summarizes the classical theory of color vision and follows with the ideas of Edwin Land who personally explains and demonstrates his experiments. It can be viewed as an introduction to this work.
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Alvin Marks & Edwin Land
by Gerald Huth on June 1, 2008
The obituaries of the New York Times of this date report the death of Alvin Marks at 97 years of age. I have noted that it was Dr. Marks’ proposal for “antennas for visible light” that provided the initial inspiration for this work. He seems to have been, as the Times notes, a man of truly large scale imagination.
It seems ironic that, although I am aware that controversy existed between Alvin Marks and Edwin Land concerning the invention of light polarizers, the fundamental antenna insight of Marks provides the basis for an explanation of Land’s extraordinary color vision experiments!
GCH
6/2/08