Adaptation
Any alteration of an original to fit or serve the same or a different purpose. An adaptation should add something to the content of the original, otherwise it is a copy.
A biological adaptation is an inheritable characteristic of an organism that increases its reproductive success.
Also a biological term, the adaptation of the eye is related to its capability to adapt to different levels of lighting. The human eye can function from very dark to very bright levels of light - its sensing capabilities reach across 9 decades. This means that the brightest and the darkest light signal that the eye can sense are a factor of roughly one billion apart. However, in any given moment of time, the eye can only sense a contrast ratio of one thousand. What enables the wider reach is that the eye adapts its definition of what is "black". The light level that is interpreted as "black" can be shifted across six decades - a factor of one million. If you move from bright sunlight to a completely dark room, it will take your eye about half an hour to adapt to maximum sensibility - one million times more sensible than at full daylight. In this process, the eye's perception of colour changes as well.
In dramatics and cinema, an adaptation is a film or a stageplay, whose theme, story, screenplay or structure is based on another work (which may be a play, novel, short story or even another film) suitably adapted for the medium.
Adaptation was also the title of a movie starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep that was released in 2002, and was largely about the adaptation of a movie from a book. See Adaptation (movie).
Referenced By
Being John Malkovich | Being John Malkovitch | Crime fiction | Eye (anatomy) | Eyeball | Eyes | Hard-boiled | List of movies based on magazine articles
|
