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Visual Encoding 
Wandell, Brainard, Cottaris
In "Visual and circadian neuroscience"
Editor, Spitschan
Forthcoming

ABSTRACT For more than two centuries scientists and engineers have worked to understand and model how the eye encodes electromagnetic radiation (light). We now understand the principles of how light is transmitted through the optics and encoded by retinal photoreceptors and light- sensitive neurons. In recent years, new instrumentation has enabled scientists to measure the specific parameters of the optics and photoreceptor encoding. We implemented the principles and parameter estimates of the human eye in an open-source software toolbox. This chapter describes the principles behind those tools and illustrates how to compute the initial visual encoding in the human eye.

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This repository contains scripts we used to create many of the image components in this book chapter. Use the links in the right panel to navigate through the code that generated figure components in the chapter. A few are shown here.

To run the scripts, you will need to have Matlab and download ISETBio onto your Matlab path.