Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Why this Book?
Eye Structure, the Visual Process, and Color Vision
Chapter 2 - Models of Human Color Vision
The Standard Model – What’s Right and What’s Wrong?
Multiple Cones or Multiple Pigments?
Molecular Genetics of Cone Pigments
Local Effects: Structure and Perception
Dynamic Characteristics of Color Vision
The Cone Spectrometer Model
But What about Blue Cones?
Chapter 3 - Optical Transmission in Cones
Light Propagation in Small Optical Fibers
Direct Observation of Color Separation in Cones
Reversed Propagation
Chapter 4 - Retinal Cone Parameters
Structure and Dimensions
Refractive Indices in the Retina
Photoabsorption Localization and Color Discrimination
Chapter 5 - Cone Spectrometer and Retinal Cone Function
Information Characteristics and Operating Range
Similarity of Violet and Purple
Directional Properties - the SC Color Change
Chromatic Adaptation
Colorimetric Purity and the Saturation of Colors
Chapter 6 - Temporal Coding and Color Information in the Cones
Separating Rod and Cone Perception
The Technique
Five Experiments
Summarizing: Rod and Cone Perception
Dynamics of Visual Perception
Temporal Color Coding
Temporal Modulation and Spectrometer Coding
Subjective Colors and Benham’s Top
Chapter 7 - Color Blindness
Defective Color Vision
Defective Cone Spectrometer Tuning
Chapter 8 - Future Directions
Appendix – Dielectric Cylinder Waveguide Propagation
References
Index
