Abstract

From student days to the present, the author reviews his adventures in designing optics, camouflaging airplanes, simulating the atmosphere, bypassing military procedures, going Hollywood, inventing photographic processes, making interference filters, decoding aerial photographs, building visual stimulators, and finally becoming a visual scientist. The narrative includes episodes from the University of Rochester, USC and UCLA, the wartime Navy in Washington, Mitchell Camera and Technicolor Corporations in Hollywood, Itek Corporation in Lexington and Palo Alto, and SRI International. No scientific material will be presented.

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