Among our various senses, vision is probably the most important.

The eye uses light

sensitive transducers to collect and interpret the visual world. Light entering the eye is
focused by the lens onto the retina, a layer of light sensitive cells (see Figure 1). There are
two types of these cells: rods and cones. The rods are designed for detecting low levels of
light, while the cones specialize in bright light and colours. Thus, an animal like an owl,
whose visual needs involve good night vision, has a vast number of rods in its retina and,
in the owl's case, no cones.[1]
The rod and cone cells contain photoreceptive pigments. Visual excitation involves
complex processes occurring in these pigments, photoreceptor cells in the eye and nerve
cells connected to the brain