ISSN:
1573-0689
Keywords:
OPTO-RETINA
;
3D grating
;
3D vision
;
4D vision
;
Colour vision
;
Polymer
;
Latex
;
Image pre-processing
;
Diffraction
;
Conoscopical microscopy.
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract The ‘inverted’ retina of the human eye can beemulated by multilayer gratings from polymer latexparticles located in the image plane of opticalsystems. This so called OPTO-RETINA provides v. Laueinterference patterns in visible light with atrichromatic characteristic containing,simultaneously, local spatiotemporal direction anddistance information, which are relevant to 3Dspatial vision and 4D spatiotemporal Fouriercorrelator-optical preprocessing in shape andmotion analysis.As a first step in the realization of OPTO-RETINAproperties the formation of hexagonally orderedmonolayers of polystyrene latex sphereswith diameters in the~μm range is reported and firstresults of diffraction and dispersion of white lightby these layers obtained by conoscopical opticalmicroscopy are presented.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004932705351
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