MetaFilter posts tagged with eyes

Women Are Heroes Phase Next

netbros — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:10:55 -0800

Graffiti Project in Kenya Slums — more than a year after he took the original pictures, French photo artist JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of his WOMEN project at the end of 2007 (previously). 2000 square meters of Kibera slum rooftops have been covered with photos of their eyes and faces. Most of the women will have their own photos on their own rooftop and the material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. They are on view from the railway line that passes above them, and will be visible for Google Earth. (via Africa.Visual_Media)

The 123 Year Old Eyes

andeles — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:30:35 -0800

Bernt Aune's corneas are 123 years old, which possibly makes them the oldest living human tissue on record. Eduard Zirm performed the first successful corneal transplant was in 1905, and was soon followed by hundreds of successful transplantations. The Eye Bank Association of America was established in 1985, in part to provide regulation of eye banks in the US. Over 100 banks now operate in the country, and over 400 banks exist worldwide. Until recently, most US eye banks only accepted eye tissue from donors aged 65 or less; a new study has shown that corneas from donors aged 66 to 75 can be used just as well. "This could expand the donor pool by 20 to 35 percent." Here is a pamphlet [pdf] on the history of corneal and eye transplants from the EBAA. A personal log of a cornea transplant.

No word on cat ears, tentacles.

orthogonality — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:41:58 -0800

So you want to look like an anime character? Because wide eyes are more attractive, and, ahem, easier. And blue eyes are more attractive, but only to blue-eyed men. (This post is dedicated to ....)

Different, that's how.

allkindsoftime — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:11:18 -0800

How do things look to colorblind people? Colour Lovers (Prev: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - all more useful to those who aren't colorblind) offers some popular websites and iconic art, As Seen By The Color Blind. Luckily humans are smart and have created technology like the Color Blind Web Page Filter. Prev. Wiki.

The Wandering Eye (Pleuronectiformes, We Hardly Knew You)

chuckdarwin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:33:07 -0800

A University of Chicago doctoral candidate has shown that the evolution of the flatfish was much more gradual than previously thought.

Argus eyes

Kronos_to_Earth — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:54:36 -0800

The day has a thousand eyes, as well.... (via)

Strange New Fish May See Like Humans

chuckdarwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:35:24 -0800

A fish with forward facing eyes has been discovered in Indonesia. University of Washington fish expert Ted Pietsch thinks that the fish is probably a member of a previously undiscovered family of lure-less anglerfish.

Madame Tutli-Putli

Wolfdog — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:24:10 -0800

Novel techniques in the making of stop-motion short Madame Tutli-Putli. And the movie itself (alternate link).

an eye for nature

nickyskye — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:45:05 -0800

Eyescapes by Rankin [nsfw]. Rankin's home site [flash], his Wikipedia entry. The anatomy of the iris l Crypts of Fuchs l Pupillary ruff l Contraction furrows l pigment dots l color scale l Wolfflin nodules l factor structure Eye color, or more correctly, iris color is due to... The visible features of an iris arise in the trabeculum, a meshwork of connective tissue that displays arching ligaments, crypts, contraction furrows, a corona and pupillary frill, coloration, and sometimes freckles. The striated anterior layer covering the trabecular meshwork creates the predominant texture seen with visible light (see examples here), but all of these sources of radial and angular variation taken together constitute a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be imaged from some distance.

Am I Blue?

CheeseDigestsAll — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:49:43 -0800

The allure of blue eyes has long been celebrated. In the Odyssey, Homer gives the goddess Athena "bright blue eyes," and our fascination persists to this day with actors like Brad Pitt and Naomi Watts. Until recently, however, no one could explain the phenomena. Research focussed on the OCA2 gene, iinvolved in the production of melanin and pigmentation. However, key to blue eyes wasn't on the OCA2 gene but rather on a nearby gene called HERC2, that works like a switch that regulates the behavior of OCA2. Interestingly, the evidence suggests that this mutation is not one that has arisen spontaneously several times, but that all blue-eye people are descendants of a single man. (ObLolCat)

Open Wide

brownpau — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:06:41 -0800

THX for the eyes. (Spoiler: a loris slowly opening its eyes to the tune of the THX soundtrack.)

Apparently, we can rebuild him...

chuckdarwin — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:04 -0800

Doctors in London have made the world's first attempt to treat a retinal degeneration disorder using gene therapy. "The researchers aim to restore the activity in these cells and therefore restore vision by implanting healthy copies of the key gene into the RPE at the back of the eye. In other optical news, wired.com is leading with a piece about "Luke 's Binoculars" (yes, as in Skywalker) - a gadget that is meant to provide soldiers with a 120-degree field of view and allow him/her to be able to spot moving vehicles as far as 10 kilometers away by integrating EEG electrodes that monitor the wearer's neural signals. CTTWS, I presume?

Iris scam. Iris scan

electricinca — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:56:49 -0800

Iridology may be bogus science, but it appears that the eyes really could windows to the soul as Swedish researchers reveal it may be possible to read a person's personality from their irises.

"please post this again when there is some real cock in it, thank you."

TheCoug — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:58:41 -0800

Okay, here it is in all it's glory: googlyeyesoncock.com is once again filled with googly-eyed cock. (seriously NSFW!)

green, black, brown, blue?

longsleeves — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:46:41 -0800

Not settled after all partial genetic explaination of eye color. it's not one classic dominant/recessive allele a la the monk Mendel. three known + unknown genes involved, everybody's still beautiful.

Oh, I've never met anyone quite like you before

kirkaracha — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:00:07 -0800

It was just horrifying how quickly they became what I told them they were. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, Jane Elliott, a elementary school teacher in Riceville, Iowa, conducted her Blue Eyes Brown Eyes exercise with her students, dividing them by eye color to ilustrate prejudice and racism. Since retiring from teaching in the early 1980s she's repeated the exercise for adults in corporations, at colleges, and on Oprah.

PBS's 1985 documentary A Class Divided is viewable online [Real and Windows Media], as are parts of the 2002 documentary Australian Eye [QuickTime and Windows Media]; both feature participants' reactions. (Related: different reflections by a participants in similar exercises; and a program evaluation and transcript of the exercise.)

Ms. Elliott recently said, "What is distressing is that I get the same results today with adults that I got using the exercise with children in 1968."

Point of interest sir, it also means bloody

Capn — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:17:58 -0800

Have you checked your humors today? Not the gunky jelly stuff in people's eyes, the other kind.

Are you melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine, or choleric? Are you a salamander, gnome, nymph or sylph? Earth, water, air or fire? Elf, Ninja, Pirate or Dwarf? (arrrr! buckets of blood! flagons of phlegm and barrels of black bile!)

If nothing else, the theory of humors adds to one's arcane vocabulary.

Failures of vision corrective surgery.

Gyan — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:43:19 -0800

Surgical Eyes - source of info about complications and their treatment from Lasik and other vision correction surgeries.

Nathalia Edenmont!

TwelveTwo — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:34:26 -0800

At first glance it would seem to be something one would find in some photoshop gallery. But then one finds out that she has been forced to justify her work, for they are pictures of freshly killed animals. Much to the dislike of some craigslistians. With the growing uproar, there is even a petition going around (though petitions like that are har dly ra re.) Is this a work of someone seeking attention through offending people? Or someone unable to use photoshop? Whatever the case, I’m sure PETA will join in. . . . Wait, it has.

Stop reading this. Look away. No, really!

soyjoy — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:58:19 -0800

MetaFilter: Stop it or you'll go blind.
Heavy computer users risk glaucoma - Toho University study.

Stem cells to retinal cells

homunculus — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:52:24 -0800

"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."

Virtual Light

artlung — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:06:00 -0800

'Laser vision' offers new insights Directly spraying light onto the retina, basically a heads-up display on your eye. And it's a step closer to the sunglasses Chevette stole in Virtual Light. Said glasses being wired up to display metadata about the world around you -- if you have a gardener set you walk through and look at the plants and everything has little labels with the common names and names in Latin.

Laser-o-vision!

moonbird — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 04:15:03 -0800

Laser-o-vision: A system that projects light beams directly into the eye could change the way we see the world.

New Jewelry Choices

Fantt — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:19:23 -0800

Eyeball Jewelry This just caught my eye (Sorry!). It's jewelry that is implanted INTO your EYE! I think this is pretty cool and another milestone in body modding. Discuss how long until Georgia legislators ban this.

Seeing with Sound

Irontom — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:12:33 -0800

Seeing with sound.
A researcher in the Netherlands has developed a system that converts pictures from a head-mounted camera into highly complex soundscapes, which are then piped to the user via headphones. After only a week of use, a woman who has been blind from birth can tell a CD from a floppy, and discern whether the lights are on or off. Not quite up to either a bat and/or Daredevil standards, but very cool nonetheless.