"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design philosophy' of eyes is explored, too: what are the physical constraints on the way that an eye performs its functions, and how are these addressed by the different types of eye? Early and closing chapters look at the properties of light critical to vision, and factors in eye adaptation like spatial resolution, sensitivity, and movement, while the central sections assess the capabilities of a wide variety of eye types.

迈克尔·兰德，萨塞克斯大学的神经生物学教授，剑桥动物学学士，伦敦大学学院神经生理学博士。曾任加州大学伯克利分校研究员,曾获俄勒冈州尤金来访奖学金，英国伦敦皇家学会会士。

丹·埃里克·尼尔森，瑞典隆德大学动物学教授，隆德大学结构生物学博士。曾任澳大利亚国立大学研究员，瑞典科学院院士。

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曹汛，南京大学电子科学与工程学院教授，博士生导师，主要从事图像和视频处理、计算机视觉以及计算机图形学方向的研究。2012年国家技术发明一等奖获奖者之一。立体视频的研究成果登上 IEEE Computer Now 首页，受邀在IEEE立体视频领域国际大会上做2小时Tutorial报告。