Vision and light

  • Human Eyes Colour Sensitivity

    Rod cells in the retina of our eyes give the ability to see light and give us our night vision when light levels are low, but rod cells cannot distinguish colour. Cones cells, located in the centre of the retina (in an area called the macula), are not much good…

  • How Do Human Eyes Work

    The retina at the back of the eye is a complex part of the eye, and its job is to turn light into signals about the images on its surface that the brain can understand. Only the retina is light sensitive, and it is roughly the area of a 10p…

  • Light and Human Colour Vision

    Sunlight White light from the Sun is fundamental to human colour vision, but it can be split into all the colours of the rainbow. The light waves are refracted (bent) as they enter and leave the prism. The shorter the wavelength of the light the more it is refracted, so…

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