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I was recently reading a Popular Mechanics article on a variety of ‘it is known’ ways to die. /content/images/wordpress/2017/07/w2d_itisknown.mp4 Turns out many of them are simply not the case. So, I’ve ranked them by what I deem to be their level of
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Colour Models Having recently created a neat little game, I’ve been doing some thinking about colours and the different colour models we use. You may recall that, when we learned to paint in school, we were introduced to the colour wheel with its primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. If
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so, we’ve looked at human eyes, simple eyes, compound eyes, and a variety of specialized and amazing eyes from some fantastic creatures. now let’s focus down on one tremendous creature: the peacock mantis shrimp. it’s called a shrimp because it kind of looks like one but it
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if we can assume that eyes all basically work the same way, then we can look at specializations based on those accepted rules. basically, light enters the eye through the pupil/iris, passes through a lens, and is interpreted by the optic nerve via rods and cones. eyes also are
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continuing with eye month, let’s take a look at simple eyes. simple eyes are any light receptor that contains only one lens. the name is slightly counter-intuitive because simple eyes can be quite complex, in and of themselves. for example, human eyes are simple eyes because they contain only
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in the array of sensory receptors added to the many creatures upon this earth, none is more fascinating to me than the eye. its job is to capture light waves (back to waves again…) and translate them into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain (or whatever thing
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this week’s topic: exorcist owls we humans are wonderfully created predators with highly maneuverable heads and with eyes on the front of our faces that we can move in lots of directions in tandem but are also rounded so that we can see a great deal in our periphery
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the praying mantis has three simple eyes and two huge compound eyes. the simple eyes are in the middle of the front of their head and are similar to ours but don’t move around independently of the head. the compound eyes have hundreds of photoreceptors which track motion but