Optical allusions
By: Jay Hosler
Publisher: Active Synapse
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780990617136; 9781482387773
Subjects: Medicine; Comic books, strips; Vision; Textbooks; Visual Perception; Ocular Physiological Phenomena; Eye
Description: Optical Allusions is for those people seeking a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses' eye and now he has to search all of human imagination for it. Along the way, he confronts biology head on and accidentally learns more about eyes and the evolution of vision than he thought possible. And, as if a compelling story with disembodied talking brains, shape-changing proteins, and giant robot eyes wasn't enough, each tale is followed by a fully illustrated, in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in the comic story. Designed to be a hybrid college text book/comic book, Optical Allusions is suitable for advanced readers with an interest in evolution and real science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toil and trouble; title: An appetite for evolution: evolving eyes; title: If looks could kill: the anatomy of vision; title: See quest: eye of the beholder; title: Clio's island: an eye of development; title: Fun with Mr. Sun: seeing the electromagnetic rainbow; title: Curse of the were-protein: proteins see the light; title: Up a tree: branching out; title: Lost and found; title: There is no eye in team.