A demonstration written in Mathematica to show the interaction of the retina and LGN on the sampling of image information from the eyes.

You can play with the receptive field size to see how the whole “Hybrid Images” thing works. Click on the image to go to the demonstration.

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Citation: Flip Phillips, “Retina and LGN: Early Vision Using Gaussian Filters”,
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RetinaAndLGNEarlyVisionUsingGaussianFilters/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Published: December 22, 2017.