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Those eyes are crazy. I'm jealous of all of the animals that have a greater range of color perception than us. If I could trade for any trait, it'd be that.
by stuart78 10y ago
Those eyes are crazy. I'm jealous of all of the animals that have a greater range of color perception than us. If I could trade for any trait, it'd be that.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoMy understanding is human lens is a filter - removes ultraviolet. Early replacements didn't filter, some old folks could see colors the rest of us don't know about!
- lsaferite 10y agoMantis shrimp can see light polarization as well. They have amazing vision range.
- evincarofautumn 10y agoHumans can, too, though not very well. Stare at a bright white LCD—you should see orthogonal double-fan shapes, one bluish, one yellowish.
- moron4hire 10y agoI personally see it more readily from red LED digits on my alarm clock at night. IDK if it's generally better conditions or biological difference.
- TD-Linux 10y agoLEDs don't produce polarized light. You might be seeing the matrix scanning.
- moron4hire 10y agoDon't know why I said LED. Alarm clocks are almost never LED. It's a backlit LCD.
- lsaferite 10y agoThey can see 6 different types of polarization though.
- jkaunisv1 10y agoWhat do you mean by early replacements?
- woofyman 10y agoCataract surgery replaces the lense with an artificial one.
- jkaunisv1 10y agoAh, thanks. I'm surprised I haven't heard of body modders getting that done so they can see UV, that sounds like a neat superpower akin to people who get magnets embedded in their fingers. Going to research risks now..
- moron4hire 10y agoI'm going to guess the retina doesn't hold up to UV exposure too well. Seems very likely.
- _nothing 10y agoYou would be right in the case of UVA light [1]. Though it's interesting that we have photoreceptors for UV light in the first place. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21646980 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21646980
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAllegedly, Monet painted with more blue colors after his cataract surgery, though it's not a sure thing: http://www.skepticalartist.com/2013/06/25/claude-monet-and-ultraviolet-light-did-the-master-impressionist-painter-have-uv-supervision/ http://www.skepticalartist.com/2013/06/25/claude-monet-and-u...
- jonknee 10y agoThere are some substances that can put you there (at least in mindset) for some period of time. Noticing the beauty of a color you have seen thousands of times is an interesting thing.
- tim333 10y agoI guess you could have cameras that pick up the extra colours linked to something like a Microsoft hololens and displayed somehow like a shimmer for UV say.