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How Your Eyes Work

A brief description of how Your Eyes work, mainly biological aspects, with some clear explanatory diagrams. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/eye.htm

The Science of Light: Alien Eyes

Interactive site showing users the concept of parallax - the idea of seeing the same image from different views.

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http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/lawslight/eyes/index.html

Simulation of The Textbook Sunset

The red Sun sets first, leaving the green image for a second or so. Clearly Dietze was right: refraction in the Standard Atmosphere cannot produce a green flash the unaided eye can see.

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http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/simulations/std/stdatmSS.html

Seeing is Believing

A site from the ThinkQuest competition covering eye anatomy, function and disorders. Also covers glasses and contact lenses, ideas about light and colour. Has Java and flash activities and is ...

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http://library.thinkquest.org/C001464/cgi-bin/main.cgi?

Eyesight, an Insight

This site created by students provides information about eye diseases. Some areas better than others.

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http://library.thinkquest.org/C001414/normal/index.phtml

Thomas Young (1773 - 1819) was an English physician and physicist who was the first to realize that the eye focuses by changing the shape of the lens. His famous double-slit experiment established ...

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http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PHY100F/young.htm

Colored Shadows - Shadows are not all black and white

When two different-coloured lights shine on the same spot on a white screen, the light reflecting from that spot to your eyes is called an additive mixture because it contains the colours from both ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html

Cow's Eye Dissection

The Cow's Eye Dissection is one of the most popular demonstrations at the Exploratorium. For many years it has helped people satisfy their curiosity about what is inside an eye. The material ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/

How Your Eyes Work

A brief description of how Your Eyes work, mainly biological aspects, with some clear explanatory diagrams. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/eye.htm

Human Vision and Colour Perception

Description of the eye and Java sequence. On the eye diagram rays fail to bend at the lens and the image, as shown is not correct.

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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/humanvisionintro.html

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