Lab #2 - Image formation in a pinhole camera

Lab #2 - Image formation in a pinhole camera

To help you understand how your eye helps you organize the patterns of light available in the environment, the exercises in Lab #2 involve building a simple model of the eye called a pinhole camera. By making this model, you'll be able to observe how image formation happens in an eye and how you can manipulate different qualities of the image by changing features of the model.

You can find the document describing the lab exercises at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlqnJT5pdG6A6n2dc6fYI4eJ5gLBiPbU/view

When you're done, move on to the next post so we can discuss what you see with a pinhole camera and what it tells us about how real eyes work.

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