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Light entering our eyes stimulates the photoreceptor cells in the retina of our eye: color sensitive cone cells that we use in normal lighting conditions and monochromatic rod cells we use in low light. The density of these cells varies across the retina, it is high in the fovea, low in the peripheral vision region […]
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How is an image formed? The real world has three dimensions but an image has only two: how does this happen and what are the consequences? We can use simple geometry to understand what’s going on.
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Let’s recap the important points from the topics we have covered about light, wavelength, spectrums, light sources, reflection, reflectance functions, cone cells, tristimulus and chromaticity space.
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A color camera has many similarities to the human eye. Instead of three types of cone cells a uniform silicon sensor uses a pattern of three color filters known as a Bayer filter.
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The human eye is quite amazing, let’s look at its various components including the light sensitive rod and cone cells.