Illuminating the function and evolution of iridescence

该项目旨在揭示动态色彩信号如何通过空间和时间将视觉信息的生产、传播和感知联系起来，从而实现有效的交流。通过整合行为、生理学和光学的创新分析，它将为信息如何在现实世界条件下编码和流畅交换提供原始见解，并为询问动物的主观视觉世界提供新的工具。这项工作将有助于我们理解普遍的交流过程如何在环境变化中推动适应，并为当代视觉和有效信息处理问题（包括人类之间的问题）提供重要的生物灵感解决方案。

This project seeks to reveal how dynamic colour signals enable effective communication by connecting the production, transmission, and perception of visual information through space and time. By integrating innovative analyses of behaviour, physiology, and optics, it will offer original insight into how information is encoded and fluidly exchanged under real-world conditions, and produce new tools for interrogating the subjective visual world of animals. This work promises benefits to our understanding of how the universal process of communication drives adaptation amidst environmental change, with significant scope for bio-inspired solutions to contemporary problems of vision and efficient information processing, including among humans.