OPTICS: Associated Web Links

Colour

Creativity and Colour
The website offers a more indepth study of colour with great facts about famous artists. Very relevant for more art related optics lesson.

Colour Wheel
Comprehensive explanation of the colour wheel. Also includes a nice explanation on how artificial light affects colour

Brainpop.com
Fantastic site combining engaging flash graphic interface, with great information movies, and related activities. A great site for students to explore and offers explanations on a whole spectrum of topics.
Click for Brainpop's flash movie on rainbows and spectral colours

Light

Bioluminscence
Colourful comprehensive site on the topic of bioluminescence. Great animations showing the origin of light, light emission by animals and insightful FAQs.

Coral Reefs and Bioluminescence
Web based Powerpoint presentation on coral reefs and bioluminescence. For some interesting information and images may have to persit through the first few slides.

Light and the solar system
This site focuses specifically on the physics of light. Quite an extensive site explaining indepth about: the properties of light, the interaction of light and matter, telescopes, optics and detectors, and the sun as the ultimate light source. The site also includes physics equations, relations and student comprehension questions as an added teaching resource.

Exploratorium
An exploratorium-at-home! This website offers great quick lesson ideas and exerices on light, perception, refraction, reflection and colour.

The Physics Classroom
Explores the role of light in sight. Focuses on the physical elements behind vision.

The Eye

The amazing eye
Keystone Blind Association WebPage. This website is all about eye safety, eye science, and the prevention of blindness. Site also includes comprehensive glossary on eyes, as well as fun colour-in pages for kids.

Glasses
This site is one of a series of kids health webpages and offers colourful cartoons, information and relevant FAQ's on optics and glasses

Nova Online
This selected region of the extensive Nova site provides some wonderful information about animal eyes. Site also includes an interactive drag and drop game which illustrates the different types of animal camoflage

The Eye Page
This site offers a colourful look at animal eyes in a unique layout. Lots of great pictures and fun snippets of information

The Eye Site
The Eye Site provides information on the human eye including: ocular anatomy, optics, eye diseases, vision and visual perception. Explore the human visual system and learn about your eyes.

The Human Eye
Clickable pictures available to help understand the anatomy of the human eye.

Vision

3D Vision Site
Offers infomation and images about 3D viewing, optical illusions and Magic Eye images. Explanations about vision therapy techniques and FAQ's, information on common visual problems and includes an insightful glossary on vision.

Colourblind
This website defines being colorblind and will educate you about the different types of colorblindness. It explains why you may be colorblind and what teachers, school nurses, and parents should know about being colorblind.

Colour Max Technologies, Inc
Although this is a commercial website, it holds relevant information about colourblindness. An explanation of what it is, how it occurs, population demographics, colour vision test plates, and some information on their latest technologies in optical aids.

Magic Eye Site
The official Magic Eye site full of great 3D images (for those that can view them), and instructions on how to view Magic Eye (for those who have not mastered it yet).

Optical Illusions - Visual Collection
This website is a gallery of weird and wonderful optical illusions.

Visionary
This website is a useful dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.

Vision Eye
This website has some great graphics, and small snippets of abstract information about eyes.