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My wife and I think she can see deeper into the infrared than most people; "heat shimmer" effects are far more apparent to her than others, and she consistently
by h2odragon 3y ago
My wife and I think she can see deeper into the infrared than most people; "heat shimmer" effects are far more apparent to her than others, and she consistently describes colors differently than others do. She's got more shades of orange where others say "that is red" and so on. It made her art classes interesting, she tells me.
We haven't figured out a cheap at home way of testing this yet; not that we've put a lot of effort into it. She describes patterns in flower petals that I can't discern; im wondering about cameras and filters that might.
- superchroma 3y agomy understanding is that women can literally see more visible spectrum than men, so that stands to reason
- jaclaz 3y agoNot really-really, there are (very few) women with this tetrachromacy, most if not all women have better capabilities at describing colours. Some actual differences have been found, but they are small: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/where-men-see-white-women-see-ecru-22540446/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/where-men-see-... Just for fun ;): http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/1406 http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/1406
- jaclaz 3y agoMaybe she is a tetrachromat? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-vision https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-s... https://research.ncl.ac.uk/tetrachromacy/ https://research.ncl.ac.uk/tetrachromacy/
- qbrass 3y agoGet a bunch of flowers, mark the stem of one, spray it's petals in sunblock, then put them in a vase and see if she can pick it out.
- h2odragon 3y agointeresting idea, thanks! Theres a morning glory vine, in particular, with purple flowers that look smooth purple to black to me, but she sees rings. i could spray some but not all of the flowers on a vine one morning and see what she says.