So this post is a simple shout-out to some other blog I discovered a few months ago. At the time, I was browsing hacker news and saw this post about optics. Great! I love hacker news for this. They mostly have posts about computers and programming but every now and then, there is a post about something totally unrelated, be it optics, physics, environment, etc… but always some quality content. This time, it was this blog: https://ciechanow.ski/, and I have to say, I am amazed by the work this guy has been doing. His blog is filled with in depth …
Category: Miscellaneous
Haidinger’s Brush Or How To See Polarization
I have always been interested with optics and vision. My path led me to a more technological approach of optics, aka photonics, but I still am fascinated by the process of vision. How the image is formed in the eye, how it is interpreted in the brain and so on. This led me to learn a few things that apparently are not so well known about our own eyes. One of these things is the subject of this post: Haidinger’s brush. To start, it should come to no surprise to you that our eyes are sensitive to colours. We have …