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It would be difficult to find a more cogent confrontation between physics and biology than in the visual process. Nature was faced from the beginning with the hard fact that light consists of a finite number of bits of energy, called “photons” or “quanta.” Whatever visual information was to be distilled out of the surrounding world was circumscribed by the profound constraints imposed by the discrete nature of light.
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Rose, A. (1973). The Visual Process. In: Vision. Optical Physics and Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2037-1_1
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