Seeing
Seeing The Computational Approach to Biological Vision
Second Edition
John P. Frisby and James V. Stone
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
© 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ISBN 978-0-262-51427-9 (pbk. : a1k. paper) l. Visual perception. 2. Optical illusions. 3. Psychophysiology. 1. Stone, James V II. T ide. BF24l.F74
2010
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Dedications John Frisby: to Jo, without whose support this project wo uld probably never have been started, and without which it most definitely would never have been fini shed .
James Stone: to Nikki, Sebastian , and Teleri, without whom thi s book wo uld have been fini shed sooner, but with fewer beautiful photographs.
In seeing eye
to
eye there's more than meets
The eye. And motes and beams within the eye Of mind are harder lost
to
sight than all
My eye and Betry Martin could have seen. We are all eyes. Even the blind have