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Piper’s law

Piper’s law

the principle that for a uniformly stimulated retinal area peripheral to the fovea, the threshold for luminance is inversely proportional to the square root of the area stimulated. Compare Ricco’s law. [Hans Edmund Piper (1877–1915), German physiologist]

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