Word: optically
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Some people hate Adrian Tomine's work. All they see are cute girls and angsty-guys in short, enigmatic portraits of the West Coast's slowly-aging Generation X. But they don't get it. Eleven years ago Tomine (pronounced TOE-mean-ay) began self-publishing his comic, "Optic Nerve" when he was just sixteen, stunning the comixcenti with his mature style. It was soon picked up by the classy Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly, and the company has just collected the last four issues into a gorgeous hardcover, "Summer Blonde" (132 pp.; $24.95). The dust jacket, with...
PRESSURE POINT Protecting the eyes from glaucoma, a major cause of vision loss in the U.S., could be as simple as dribbling a few medicated drops into the eyes. Too much ocular fluid building up in the eyes squeezes the optic nerve, impairing sight. But eyedrops designed to drain that fluid in a flush of tears can reduce the risk of developing glaucoma more than 50%, according to a study of over 1,600 patients. That's especially encouraging since 3 million to 6 million Americans have elevated pressure in the eyes that puts them at high risk for developing...
...have been greatly exaggerated. These limited dangers must now be weighed against the social costs of its prohibition. The most damaging effect of marijuana prohibition is the denial of medicinal marijuana to those who need it. Marijuana dramatically reduces the severe nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy, relieves the unrelenting optic pressure that characterizes glaucoma and successfully induces appetite among AIDS patients who desperately need to eat. It has also proved effective in combating the symptoms of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and many other medical conditions. Unbelievably, the U.S. government has ignored these findings and classified marijuana as a Schedule I Drug...
...visual range is narrow, Marie has to scan an image by slowly moving her head from left to right and up and down until she's covered the entire screen. As the camera criss-crosses the visual field, a rapid series of electrical stimulations is sent to her optic nerve. The number of electrical stimulations depends on the number of live pixels on the screen; the more there are, the easier and quicker it is to compile an image. Marie reconstructs the image from what appear to be a series of strobe flashes, an experience that's a bit like...
...experiments carried out to date, Veraart has noted a correspondence between where Marie sees a flash and that image's actual location in space, which means that the flashes transmitted to Marie's optic nerve correlate with the outside world. Veraart has also discovered that different electrical pulses lead to different perceptions. One type of pulse might always produce a yellow image, for example, while another might always produce red. If this turns out to be the case, Veraart and his team intend to compile a lexicon of correspondences so that specific visual stimuli can be easily reproduced. Imagine public...