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Workbook 15

Chapter 1: How Cameras Work

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Objectives

Understand how photons from sunlight are transformed into a camera photo

• Video: How Do Cameras See Stuff??? - YouTube
• Video: How does a camera work? - YouTube
• Video: How Does a DSLR Camera Work - YouTube
• Video: The Physics Behind Digital Cameras - YouTube
• Video: The history of photography in 5 minutes - YouTube
• Video: How Camera Sensor Works | Camera Sensor Explained - YouTube
• Reference: Camera - Wikipedia
• Reference: Camera phone - Wikipedia
• Reference: Digital camera - Wikipedia
• Reference: History of the camera - Wikipedia
• Reference: Pinhole camera - Wikipedia

Understand the orgin of RGB values and what they represent

• Video: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED - YouTube
• Video: Images, Pixels and RGB - YouTube
• Reference: RGB color model - Wikipedia
• Reference: RGB color model - Wikipedia

Prerequisites

• Understand electromagnetic waves from Chapter 1: "Electromagnetic Waves" in Workbook 14
• Understand the purpose of photons and how they form from Chapter 2: "Reflection" in Workbook 14
• Understand how light reflects from Chapter 2: "Reflection" in Workbook 14
• Understand the purpose of a lens from Chapter 4: "Lenses" in Workbook 14

Chapter 2: How Eyes Work

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Objectives

Understand how the eye works

• Video: Eye Works 1: Focusing: Cornea, Iris and Lens - YouTube
• Video: Vision: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #18 - YouTube
• Video: How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein - YouTube
• Reference: Eye - Wikipedia
• Reference: Eye disease - Wikipedia
• Reference: Myopia - Wikipedia

Understand how we see color

• Video: How we see color - Colm Kelleher - YouTube
• Reference: CMYK color model - Wikipedia

Prerequisites

• Understand how photons from sunlight are transformed into a camera photo from Chapter 1: "How Cameras Work" in Workbook 15
• Understand the orgin of RGB values and what they represent from Chapter 1: "How Cameras Work" in Workbook 15
• Understand the purpose of photons and how they form from Chapter 2: "Reflection" in Workbook 14

Chapter 3: Images in Python

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• A file splitting an image into rgb

Objectives

Understand basic python image processing

• Reference: Working with Images in Python - GeeksforGeeks
• Reference: Image processing with Python, NumPy | note.nkmk.me

Prerequisites

• Understand the orgin of RGB values and what they represent from Chapter 1: "How Cameras Work" in Workbook 15

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