Light and color in the outdoors
by M. G. J. Minnaert, L. Seymour · first published 1993
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"Light and Color in the Outdoors" by Marcel Minnaert. The book goes into the physics of a lot of outdoor phenomena; you will be amazed at the things you never noticed or thought about before reading it. "The History and Social Influence…
on “Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?” ↗Did any of you catch the Minnaert recommendation, for "Light and Color In The Outdoors", the author's notion of a strong work about the connection between programming and art? I bought a used copy for Erin, and it was pretty awesome. Did any of you read it? What did you think?
on “Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG” ↗If you're into this sort of thing, I highly, highly recommend M. G. J. Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors: http://www.amazon.com/Light-Color-Outdoors/dp/0387979352 The harvest moon is one of his favorite illusions, and there just tons of little nuggets like this. It reads like an optical Wittgenstein: a…
on “Why does the Moon look so huge on the horizon?” ↗…someone generated 2 images within 1/24th of a second? Would that would count as a 33.367ms long video? To learn more about how the eye interprets the structure of light, I recommend skimming Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors (won't cover motion).
on “Real-Time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction” ↗