{"id":8383,"date":"2011-08-26T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2014-10-24T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:49:45","slug":"these-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/these-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"These eyes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8384\" title=\"NAVIS_Peters_Robert_L_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/NAVIS_Peters_Robert_L_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8385\" title=\"NAVIS_Peters_Robert_L_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/NAVIS_Peters_Robert_L_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8386\" title=\"Robert_L_Peters_retina_photos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_L_Peters_retina_photos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I usually do, early yesterday morning I checked my email, and I was delighted to find a friendly message from the optometrist who recently checked my eyes in advance of my ordering some new reading glasses (let&#8217;s just call him &#8220;Gary&#8221; as I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s really supposed to provide me with these files); as per my request he sent me the retina photos that he took during my checkup (large, screen-filling, with incredible detail). As a visual designer, I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with the <em>function<\/em> of vision\u2014which I mentioned to him as he was putting me through the optical steeplechase\u2014but until now I&#8217;ve never been able to <em>&#8220;peer into my own eyes,&#8221;<\/em> as it were.<\/p>\n<p>The pics he sent are shot through the pupil (the dark, size-changing hole in the center of the iris, which is the structure that gives the eye color and works like a shutter in a camera). After passing through the iris, the light rays strike the eye\u2019s crystalline lens, a clear, flexible structure that works much like the lens in a camera, shortening and lengthening its width in order to focus light rays properly; the light rays then pass through the vitreous, a clear, jelly-like substance that fills the globe of the eyeball (the vitreous humor helps the eye hold its spherical shape), before landing and coming into sharp focus (if you&#8217;re lucky (-:\u00a0on the retina. The bright\/orange spot you see is the optic nerve (a bundle of over a million nerve fibers, to be more accurate) which acts as sort of an extension of and connection to the brain, where one actually interprets an <em>&#8220;image.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Pretty cool, eh? Thanks &#8220;Gary!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Manitoba As I usually do, early yesterday morning I checked my email, and I was delighted to find a friendly message from the optometrist who recently checked my eyes in advance of my ordering some new reading glasses (let&#8217;s just call him &#8220;Gary&#8221; as I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s really supposed to provide me with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}