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  2. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Thus color information is mostly taken in at the fovea. Humans have poor color perception in their peripheral vision, and much of the color we see in our periphery may be filled in by what our brains expect to be there on the basis of context and memories. However, our accuracy of color perception in the periphery increases with the size of ...

  3. Eigengrau - Wikipedia

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    An example of noise observed in the dark An example of noise observed in the dark #2. Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the ...

  4. Cone cell - Wikipedia

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    Because humans usually have three kinds of cones with different photopsins, which have different response curves and thus respond to variation in color in different ways, humans have trichromatic vision. Being color blind can change this, and there have been some verified reports of people with four types of cones, giving them tetrachromatic ...

  5. Night vision - Wikipedia

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    The resulting scene, which is apparently dark to a human observer, appears as a monochrome image on a normal display device. [13] Because active infrared night-vision systems can incorporate illuminators that produce high levels of infrared light, the resulting images are typically higher resolution than other night-vision technologies.

  6. Evolution of color vision in primates - Wikipedia

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    These wavelengths are shorter than visible light but longer than X-rays. In some rare cases, some modern day humans can see within the UV spectrum at wavelengths close to 310 nm . [9] In other animals that possess UV vision such as birds, ultraviolet sensitivity can be advantageous for courtship and reproductive success. This is because some ...

  7. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye.

  8. What colors can cats see? A vet reveals the answer (and it ...

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    Yes, cats can see color but they don't see as many shades as we humans do. "Cats can see some color but they don’t see the full spectrum, so they are less able to differentiate various shades ...

  9. Rod cell - Wikipedia

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    On average, there are approximately 92 million rod cells (vs ~6 million cones) in the human retina. [1] Rod cells are more sensitive than cone cells and are almost entirely responsible for night vision. However, rods have little role in color vision, which is the main reason why colors are much less apparent in dim light.