Shape of Eye’s Light Pipes Key to Colour Sorting : Study

08 March , Mumbai
Physicists have pinned down precisely how pipe shaped cells in our retina filter the incoming colours.
These cells, which sit in front of the ones that actually sense light, play a major role in our colour vision that was only recently confirmed.

They funnel crucial red and green light into cone cells, leaving blue to spill over and be sensed by rod cells which are responsible for our night vision.

Key Key to this process, researchers now say, is the exact shape of the pipes. The work was done in the lab of Dr Erez Ribak from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.