Using digital photography to study animal coloration

In understanding how visual signals function, quantifying the components of those patterns is vital. With the everincreasing power and availability of digital photography, many studies are utilizing this technique to study the content of animal colour signals. Digital photography has many advantages over other techniques, such as spectrometry, for measuring chromatic information, particularly in terms of the speed of data acquisition and its relatively cheap cost. Not only do digital photographs provide a method of quantifying the chromatic and achromatic content of spatially complex markings, but also they can be incorporated into powerful models of animal vision. Unfortunately, many studies utilizing digital…

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  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  Award: BB/E02100X/1