Archive for the ‘The way we see’ Category
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Those of us who have strabismus do not like to be referred to as having a lazy eye. We are not lazy. Because our eyes don't work right, we often have to work much harder to accomplish a task than those who have normal vision.
But if any form ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Monet's vision reached a lot deeper than his eyes could see.
Professor Michael Marmor, an Ophthalmologist who led a team of researchers at Stanford University, has been quoted in Times Online as saying that the beloved artist Monet "derided the developing abstraction in art." Yet as he aged, Monet's paintings ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
--written by anthony d'agostino
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If people truly had zero depth perception, how could they function? Everything could be like that game you play when you were a kid where you hold the moon in between your two fingers. Or that "Kids in the Hall" skit, ...
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Ever since Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope using mirrors in the 1830's, people have been fascinated with 3-dimentional stereoscopic vision and depth perception.
The New Yorker published a very interesting article called Stereo Sue about 10 months ago. You'll want to read the entire abstract (linked above), but here is a ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
We strabismus sufferers see lots of double images, and often find them annoying. But as I scrolled through the double exposures turned into artwork by one photographer, I found the photos to be beautiful.
Is is possible there is hidden beauty in the double vision of strabismus as well? I wondered. ...
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