1 Fiat lux: let there be light --
2 The eye and color vision --
3 Luminance and night vision --
4 The first stages of processing color and luminance: where and what --
5 Acuity and spatial resolution: central and peripheral vision --
6 The next level of color processing: surround effects --
7 From 3-D to 2-D: perspective --
8 From 3-D to 2-D: shading and chiaroscuro --
9 From 3-D to 2-D: stereopsis --
10 Illusions of motion --
11 Color mixing and color resolution --
12 Television, movies, and computer graphics --
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