Useful links
http://lawton.ewind.com/mailman/listinfo/cvnet Sign up to the Color and Vision Network mailing list

http://www.vision-research.eu/ The European Vision Institute, website hosted by U-Tübingen

http://www.scholarpedia.org The peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia

https://sph.uth.edu/retnet/sum-dis.htm RetNet: Genes/Loci causing retinal disease

https://web.stanford.edu/group/vista/cgi-bin/wandell/a-brief-organized-list/ Useful numbers in vision

http://www.cvrl.org/ Andrew Stockman's cone fundamentals

http://www.color-blindness.com/farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-color-vision-test/ Colorblind?

https://galactic.ink/sphere/ Find your favorite colors for figures and design

http://www.palamedestoolbox.org/ Matlab routines for analyzing psychophysical data

https://github.com/wichmann-lab/psignifit Psignifit 3.0 for Matlab

http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/optics/f_NA Calculate that Airy disk diameter

http://pages.jh.edu/~signals/convolve/index.html Explore the joy of convolution

http://www.hans.strasburger.de/psy_soft.html The definitive link, software and ref resource

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ An excellent resource on visual illusions

https://michaelbach.de/fract/index.html THE tool to assess human acuity and hyperacuity

Code
We publish some of our code in our github repositories and in repositories linked to the Consortium for Retinal Imaging and Tracking Experiments (C-RITE).

IGUIDE: For developers, check our github site or C-RITE for the latest source code.
For users, please download the latest binaries (v.0.3.9) + documentation via this link.

The Gertrud Kusen Stiftung, Hamburg (Project title: Scotocpic-AOSLO), the Carl Zeiss Foundation (HC-AOSLO), the Dr. Eberhard and Hilde Rüdiger Stiftung (Bino-SLO), Novartis Pharma GmbH, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, Ha 5323/8-1), and the German Research Foundation, DFG (Ha 5323/2-1, Ha 5323/3-1, Ha 5323/4-1, Ha 5323/5-1: Emmy Noether Program, Ha 5323/6-1: DFG SPP 2127). Thank you!

We are grateful for financial support from a number of public funding sources:
Research funding
Colleagues
Andrew Metha, University of Melbourne, Australia - [Metha lab]
Ulrich Ettinger, University of Bonn, Germany - [Ettinger lab]
Austin Roorda, University of California, Berkeley, USA - [Roorda lab]
Ramkumar Sabesan, University of Washington, Seattle, USA - [SabLab]
Bilge Sayim, University of Bern, Switzerland - [AppearanceLab] [SCALab]
Lawrence Sincich, Univeristy of Alabama, Birmingham, USA - [Sincich lab]
William Tuten, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA - [Tuten lab]

Data
Ameln et al. (2025) In-vivo cone photoreceptor topography of the human foveola, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/m5nkpb8phv.1] [Paper] [PDF]

Nghiem T-A, Witten JL, Dufour O, Harmening W, Azeredo da Silveira R (2025) Data and code for manuscript: Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/p7dyyrfds6.1] [Paper] [PDF]

Harmening WM, Gutnikov A (2024) ConeMapper: Automatic annotation and analysis of foveolar cone photoreceptor topography, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/r87cvk4mp8.1] [Paper] [PDF]

Reiniger JL, Lukyanova V, Harmening WM (2024) Sub-cone visual resolution by active, adaptive sampling in the human foveola, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/zp6d5w8kdv.1] [Paper] [PDF]

Domdei N, Harmening W (2023) Foveal cone photoreceptor outer segment length and cone density, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/89rykrg8j2.1] [Paper] [PDF]

Reiniger JL, Harmening WM (2021) Human foveal cone topography and preferred retinal locus of fixation, Mendeley Data, V1, [doi:10.17632/9gkpxsmz23.1iment] [Paper] [PDF]

ConeMapper: https://github.com/ukb-aoslo/ConeMapper

We couldn't be more grateful to the folks we talk to, learn from and exchange ideas and data the most. Some of our dear national and international collaborators are:
Photos
The awesome photos in the headers on theses research pages, SYSDEV, SINGLECELL, and FUTURE, were taken by Volker Lannert, www.vlannert.de
Our AOSLO beam made visible with dry ice. Light sheet imaging :).
Theses
Jenny Witten (Reiniger) (2025) Precision and limits of human vision. How visual resolution depends on ocular optics and spatiotemporal sampling characteristics of the foveolar photoreceptor mosaic, Ph.D. thesis [PDF]

Maximillian Freiberg (2025) Untersuchung des binokularen Fixationsverhaltens bei unterschiedlichen Blickbedingungen sowie Fixationsaufgaben, M.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Maximillian Freiberg (2022) Bestimmung des bevorzugten retinalen Fixationsortes unter monokularen versus binokularen Fixationsbedingungen mittels binokularer Scanning Laser Ophthalmoskopie, B.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Niklas Domdei (2021) Single cell visual psychophysics, Ph.D. thesis [PDF]

Lennart Domdei (2020) Design und Aufbau eines binokularen tracking scanning Laser Ophthalmoskops zur Messung von binokularen Fixationsaugenbewegungen, M.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Sobika Sugunasabesan (2018) Psychophysical determination of the polarization perception during dark adaptation, B.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Lennart Domdei (2017) Hochkontrast-Modulation einer Laserlichtquelle für hintergrundfreie Mikrostimulation im adaptive optics scanning laser Ophthalmoskop, B.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Anna-Marina van der Meer (2010) The influence of stimulus configuration in visual
hyperacuity tasks on test repeatability, B.Sc. thesis [PDF]

Wolf Harmening (2008) Fundamentals of spatial vision in the barn owl—Ocular aberrations, grating acuity, contrast sensitivity, and vernier acuity, Ph.D. thesis [PDF]

Wolf Harmening (2005) Measuring vernier and stereo acuity as a function of luminance in the barn owl (Tyto alba), Diplomarbeit [PDF]