"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.

邁剋爾·蘭德，薩塞剋斯大學的神經生物學教授，劍橋動物學學士，倫敦大學學院神經生理學博士。曾任加州大學伯剋利分校研究員,曾獲俄勒岡州尤金來訪奬學金，英國倫敦皇傢學會會士。

丹·埃裏剋·尼爾森，瑞典隆德大學動物學教授，隆德大學結構生物學博士。曾任澳大利亞國立大學研究員，瑞典科學院院士。

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曹汛，南京大學電子科學與工程學院教授，博士生導師，主要從事圖像和視頻處理、計算機視覺以及計算機圖形學方嚮的研究。2012年國傢技術發明一等奬獲奬者之一。立體視頻的研究成果登上 IEEE Computer Now 首頁，受邀在IEEE立體視頻領域國際大會上做2小時Tutorial報告。