Eric Rosenthal’s lecture was really illuminating and I liked him a lot. I think the way he structured his talk was great because he gave an overview of how the eye works, how many people believe it works, and how he has created his own theory. I agree very much with his own theory about the eye as I have always been skeptical about “photons” and I think his theory fits well into ideas about the eye and what the cones and rods do. At the same time, however, his “wave theory of light” can also have problems in the science world because if light were waves like sound, why does light not travel around corners as sound does?
But overall I agreed with his theory and I thought his ideas about how the cones are more like towers that pick up a broad spectrum of waves are very interesting and the way he incorporated that into his “full spectrum imaging device” was quite revolutionary. If it’s true that his device can attain the full spectrum of light just as our eyes do then I would be very very interested in it. I can’t wait to see what happens once his patents are filed and his company is able to market the device. I know it might be well over 10 years before any consumer could ever see such a device, I think it’s amazing that such devices have been invented.
I was also very interested in his idea (and his friends idea) about compressing of images and how JPEG and MPEG (which I’ve always despised) are really horrible compression systems and don’t compress the images as our eyes compress them. I will also be very excited to hear about his compression system that supposedly achieves a 300:1 compression ratio without any real loss of quality. Overall, I loved Eric’s lecture and look forward to hearing about his technologies, even though they may be far away in the distant future for consumers.
