Spring 2005, Tues. Jan 18, Jan. 25, and Feb. 1; REISS 256 \& Gervase 418 Tel. 202-687-0664; open Thurs. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Met Tues. from 6pm to 7:30 pm in Reiss 256 and Gervase. Books on reserve now in the main library for our module (ICOS 202). Also see the old module page and the page.
You can reach me by phone (or voice-mail) at 7-2703 or by e-mail kainen at georgetown.edu or drop by Reiss 258 during my office hours.
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April 18, 2005
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Other general information, including for other courses, on the index (classroom) page . Office hours are also posted there.
As I told you in e-mail, we are going shift gears - following a more colorful path. But the idea is still to give you some flavor of what is involved in doing psychophysical research.
I'm at the lab in Gervase 418 almost every MTF afternoon from 3 to 6 (phone 687-0664 to check) and on Thursday from 1 to 4. The door downstairs in Gervase gets locked automatically sometime after 5 so 3 to 5 is best. Please let me know if you can't make these hours and we'll set up something different.
http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/eisl/land.htm
http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/eisl/overview/details.htm
color-site 1 Land's retinex color phenomenon demonstrated
and some remarks on color
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http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b110.html
color-site 2 several-page tutorial on color vision;
clearly written though occasionally wrong - e.g.,
color vision _does_ seem to occur outside the fovea
under conditions when only ``scotopic'' vision should
be expected - cf. early expts by McCann and Benton
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http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1967/wald-lecture.pdf
molecular biology of vision
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http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/
Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Inst. of Technology
you may recognize the name ``Munsell'' since that it the name
of one of the standard color-naming conventions, which depends
on establishing HSI (hue, saturation, intensity) values. There
are commercially available paper squares which have prescribed
Munsell values, with respect to this subjective scale, using
white light with given values.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Munsell_color_system
http://www.paintcafe.com/en/couleur/langage/vocabulaire/index.asp
http://www.georgehernandez.com/xComputers/Color/Systems.htm
These sites have more on the Munsell and related systems
You can do additional searching - e.g.,
google: color-vision tutorial neurophysiology
to see a bit about how the brain may process all this stuff to
create whatever it is that we report to one another as color.
What are your own colorful interests? Did you know that Newton
and Goethe both wrote on color?
If you do an hour's preparation (looking on the web and/or in
a library), then you only need to put in 2 hours in the lab.
Yes, I know this is near the end of the semester but (from long
experience) you guys would not have started term papers yet, so
you're getting off easy!
A variety of Lissajous-related websites. List compiled by PCK on 1/18/05
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMAT6680.2003.Su/Daly/Write_Ups/wr_10/wr_10.htm
http://abc.net.au/science/holo/liss.htm
http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/ece482/Teams/99spr/design2/web/resources/lissajous/lissajous.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1305.htm
http://www.nmhs.nusd.k12.ca.us/Nmhs/Departmentwebsites/Math/Lissajous.htm
http://www.tomdownload.com/desktop_enhancements/screensavers/lissajous_3d.htm
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Rudolf_Koenig_Apparatus/Vibration_Microscope/Vibration_Microscope.html
http://www.pma.caltech.edu/~physlab/assignment-2.pdf
http://www.jurp.org/articles/tuningforkpaper.pdf
Perception and Psychophysics (Journal)
Brain and Behavioral Science (Journal)
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Lissajous applets:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Java/Lissajous.html
http://javaboutique.internet.com/Encyclo/
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vmiller/applets/lissajous/LissajousApplet.html
http://surendranath.tripod.com/Applets/Oscillations/Lissajous/LissajousApplet.html
http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/LFunctions/LissajousApplet/Lissajous.html
http://www.nomad.ee/soft/java/ddstest.html
http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/geodoubek/
(try holding down the phase-increment button and watch the figure tumble!)
http://www.math.ucl.ac.be/~magnus/lissapp.htm
http://members.aol.com/wjbgrafx/Links/otherAppletsOnline.html
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/shm/shm.html
http://www.physics.orst.edu/~rubin/CPUG/Nacphy/CPapplets/lissajous/Fig2pe.html
http://www.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/pradem/applets/Lissajous/Lissajous_lab.html
(try 1000,1500,1999,062 for x-freq, y-freq, hue freq,, samples, resp.)
http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/LFunctions/LissajousHandout.pdf
(program for a TI calculator)
http://www.joma.org/mathDL/4/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=508&bodyId=762
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/chew/Delaunay.html
(_not_ a Lissajous site, but nice mathematical graphics)
http://www.aw-bc.com/ide/Media/JavaTools/funcliss.html
(use the slider for phase and watch how the figure tumbles)
http://www.falstad.com/coupled/
(try "weak coupling 1" and vary simulation speed; turn on "lissajous")
http://www.masterdiz.com/marychuy/
(warning: has music background; has preset buttons and also manual control
- also does something quite slick when I tried it from google - moves aside
the current window and replaces it with its own window, plus sound, with
unfortunately no separate sound control)
http://www.uwm.edu/People/msw/BodePlot/
(also not Lissajous - though rather interesting, especially shot of actual
electronic components)
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