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  2. Visual impairment in art - Wikipedia

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    Visual impairment in art is a limited topic covered by research, with its focus being on how visually impaired people are represented in artwork throughout history. This is commonly portrayed through the inclusion of objects such as canes and dogs to symbolize blindness, [1] which is the most frequently depicted visual impairment in art.

  3. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    The device could track involuntary movements of one eye (there was a patch over the other eye) and adjust mirrors so the image would follow the eye and the boundaries of the stripes were always on the same places on the eye's retina; the field outside the stripes was blanked with occluders.

  4. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.In the absence of treatment such as corrective eyewear, assistive devices, and medical treatment, visual impairment may cause the individual difficulties with normal daily tasks, including reading and walking. [6]

  5. Visual agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with prosopagnosia know that they are looking at faces, but cannot recognize people by the sight of their face, even people whom they know well. [ 6 ] Simultagnosia , an inability to recognize multiple objects in a scene, including distinct objects within a spatial layout and distinguishing between "local" objects and "global ...

  6. Color blindness - Wikipedia

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    These color charts show how different color blind people see compared to a person with normal color vision. [ dubious – discuss ] Much terminology has existed and does exist for the classification of color blindness, but the typical classification for color blindness follows the von Kries classifications, [ 26 ] which uses severity and ...

  7. Cultural depictions of blindness - Wikipedia

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    "Many, Many Monkeys" is a 1989 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which an epidemic of blindness is described as a judgement upon society for "turning a blind eye" to the sufferings of others. Proof is a 1991 film about a blind photographer, who distrusts other people's descriptions of the world around him.

  8. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The two orange circles are exactly the same size; however, the one on the right appears larger. Ehrenstein illusion: The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion studied by the German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape. Fata Morgana (mirage)

  9. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The irises of human eyes exhibit a wide spectrum of colours. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3]: 9