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    Shading objects in a drawing has everything to do with lighting for lighting is what shows form. It is both light and shadows that are the factors that add dimensions to the drawing and help to define the space and objects visually by giving them sense of value and depth. Though there is not much detail in the overall “big picture” of the drawing there is certainly a numerous amount of different tones and different tone shifts making up the scene. Along the area where the shading transitions…

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    The artwork I choose is Pebbles around a Hole. The artist is Andy Goldsworthy. He was born in Britain in 1956. He created Pebbles around a Hole in 1987. The medium used is chromogenic print. The size is 65.5 x 67 cm. The location is unknown. The subject matter is an eye. The black hole is the pupil and the colored rings around it are the colored parts of the eye. I see it as an eye looking at us while we do not know what could possibly be looking back at us. The eye could also be looking deep…

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    It is the main factor causing irreversible blindness in the old aged people. Macular degeneration may be limited to one or both of the eyes. The main cause of loss of vision is decrease in function of rods and cones (these cells are responsible for vision) with passage of age. Signs and symptoms: The main complaint of macular degeneration is loss of central vision but the patient never becomes completely blind. The initial complaint is blurred vision; straight objects appear…

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    How Does Ocular Dominance Affect the Way We See Things? Eyes are what allow our brains to process information, whether it’s to see color or to give the ability to read. They are organs that even allow us to evaluate our health, and can be used to express emotion. Everyone has them and each one is different, but they share a common purpose, and it’s important to know how they work. Light passes through the cornea of the eye, which has the job of protecting the eye and refracting the light so…

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    would have to take the creation of artificial photoreceptors as well that could connect to neurons in the brain to create the image for the blind person to see. The key component in the blind person gaining sight is the creation of artificial photoreceptors because they detect light. Photoreceptors convert information into chemical signals that stimulate neurons that process movement, color, and details that the brain can interpret. With the photoreceptor doing these tasks the information then…

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    Rods And Cones Lab Report

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    the eyeball that contains photoreceptors. These photoreceptors are called rods and cones. They are both sensitive to light and convert the light into signals that the brain can read. Rods interpret low intensity light, while high intensity light is interpreted by cones. Rods cannot convey color, but cones can. Rods are located around the outside of the retina. Rods come into affect with periphery vision. Therefore, when light is dim, rods are the primary photoreceptors causing the periphery…

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    Heterochromia is a birth defect in which a person’s two eyes are different colors. There are three types of Heterochromia. The three types of Heterochromia are called Sectoral Heterochromia, Central Heterochromia, and Complete Heterochromia. Each type affects the appearance of a person’s eye color in a different way. It can affect anyone, even animals. Additionally, Heterochromia is more common in animals such as cats and dogs. About 6 out of every 1,000 people have Heterochromia. However,…

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    This photo shows a pair of eyeglasses. The part of the image that is seen through the lens is in focus while everything outside of the lens frame is out of focus. The human eye is a fascinating organ. There are many parts of the eye that aid in allowing a person to see, but this paper will talk only the components that allow images to form on the retina. In general, the ciliary muscle can relax or contract to adjust the focal length of the lens. When the muscle is contracted, the curvature of…

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    How The Eye Works

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    The first area of the brain to receive input from ganglion cells is the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus. From there the thalamus sends information to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe and area V1 sends information back to the thalamus. These two areas feed information back and forth. Area…

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    An Ames room is a distorted room that gives an optical illusion. The room was first constructed in 1946 by an American ophthalmologist named Adelbert Ames Jr. and it was invented in 1934. The room is based on a concept invented by Hermann Helmholtz in the late 19th century according to my research. The room has two illusions, one is that the room appears to look squared when you look at it through a small hole in the front of the room but it is not it is actually like a trapezoid. The second…

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