The goal of this resource is to summarize the recent advances in knowledge and understanding of the mammalian retina. We have tried to describe a conceptual theory, based on our and others' anatomical and physiological investigations and on the actual pathways used by neurons to code visual signals in the retina.
Webvision is arranged like a book with text and many illustrations. Please click on the title of the chapter or section within the chapter that you wish to access. Some chapters are in several parts and the succeeding parts or sections can be accessed by clicking on the topics listed at the beginning or end of the chapter as well as from the index.
Since on the World Wide Web, the most universally accepted image formats are GIF and JPEG, all our images are in these formats. Both GIF and JPEG store images in a compressed format, which means that images can be stored in relatively small files. However most of our images are still too large, so we use thumbnail sketchs which link each image to the larger version (to see the actual images, and not simply the reduced-size icon of the actual image, you should click inside the thumbnail image). Note that sizes of the linked images are also given.
Webvision also contains movies and animations in Quicktime format (QuickTime is the technology that makes multimedia a reality on Macintosh, Windows and other platforms). Since most World Wide Web browsers are not capable of displaying these movies we recommend that you upload to Netscape Navigator 3.0 (or later versions) that include Quicktime plug-ins in order to take advantage of WebVision.
Updated: December 30, 1996