Re: Cat's eyes

[Mark Sylvester <msylvest@XNET.IT>]

This is very nice, Ludwik. I must find a cooperative cat. As for a human
subject, I now have a scientific reason for staring into somebody's eyes in
a dimly-lit room, with perhaps a candle for illumination...

At 17:55 05/09/00 , Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> I agree with Doug (see below). Let me add this:
>
> I agree with Mark (see below). Let me add this:
>
> The face mask (black) produced a very interesting result.
> Conditions were the same as in my first message (one
> which started this thread). My skin does not play a role
> but my eye does. It is the eye, which is sidewise illuminated.
> I closed it and no glowing was seen by the other eye. Then
> the other (left) eye was closed and the right (illuminated)
> eye saw the glowing.

...and then winking, first with one eye, then with the other.


> A convenient way to conducted cat's eyes experiments is
> to be with the animal in a dark room and to use a flashlight.
> In that way one can illuminate the face at various spots and
> from various directions. Then one can replace the cat by a
> human being and look for differences.
>
> The glowing eyes of the cat are big circles, not single points,
> as a reflection from a metallic sphere. They seem to disappear
> from time to time. What does the cat do "to turn the glow off"?

The effect should disappear if the cat looks away, but what if it continues
to look in your direction, but loses focus, as I sometimes do when my
attention wanders from the person in front of me? Would this produce big
circles?

Mark



Mark Sylvester
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