From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 11:56:10 MST
Actually, if you wear polarizing glasses all the time, your eyes will
adjust to this. You only notice this because the eyes are used to such
level of detail being washed out by the glare of the unpolarized light.
"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> Check out Dr. Land's Retinex theory of color vision for what might be an
> interesting clue.
>
> I also sometimes notice additional information from wearing polarized
> sunglasses. A leaf on the ground will appear to have a peculiar
> glistening sheen. I should research this some more.
>
> Dave Sill wrote:
> >
> > hal@finney.org quoted:
> > >
> > > The two eyes perceive two different shifts in
> > > the color of an object relative to the perception of the color of the
> > > object by the unaided eye.
> <snip>
> > I don't get it. I don't see--excuse the pun--how selectively filtering the
> > light reaching each eye can add information. The depth perception analogy
> > doesn't work because in this case the filtering doesn't provide new
> > information.
> >
> > -Dave
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