Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: bumbleview
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: Convert physical spectra to excitation potential in insect eyes
Home-page: https://github.com/biothomme/Retinol.git
Author: thomas m huber
Author-email: thomas.huber@evobio.eu
License: MIT
Description: # Retinol
        Python package for converting wavelength spectra of e.g. petals to trichromatic insect vision. Designed to be used as a colab notebook, to ease the process.
        
        How do insects see the world? A recent review shows the magnitude of variation of visual perception across the phylum of insects (van der Kooi et al. 2021). Nonetheless, many of which have a set of 3 different wavelength receptors, covering a range of wavelengths from ~300 to ~700 nm (or in words, from UV to red). As there is no direct physical way of measuring this perception, a framework combining physiological exminations, wavelength measurements and mathematical transformations was set up during the 20th century (Wyszecki & Spines 1982, Chittka & Waser 1997). Thus, it is possible to compare different flowers by how they are perceived by an insect. This notebook implements the concept described by Chittka & Kevan (2005) (and basically shares its nomenclature) and enables the comparison of multiple species of flowers on how they are sensed by a trichromatic insect eye.
        
        For any questions or help please contact thomas.huber<at>evobio.eu
        
        
Keywords: pollination,ecology,insect,vision,wavelength,color triangle,color hexagon,trichromatic,erg,electroretinogram
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