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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Blue eyes are a highly sexually dimorphic eye color. Studies from various populations in Europe have shown that men are substantially more likely to have blue eyes than women. [18] The inheritance pattern followed by blue eyes was previously assumed to be a Mendelian recessive trait, though this has been

  3. Cyanopsia - Wikipedia

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    After cataract surgery, the natural lens, which filters blue light, is replaced with a synthetic lens that allows more blue light to pass through. This sudden increase in blue light reaching the retina causes the brain to perceive a blue tint in vision. This effect is temporary as the brain and eyes gradually adapt to the new lens.

  4. If you think you have blue or green eyes, they're ... - AOL

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    By Susana Victoria Perez, Buzz60 If you think you have blue eyes, think again, they are actually tricking you! All eyes are really brown. According to CNN, Dr. Gary Heiting, a licensed optometrist ...

  5. The dress - Wikipedia

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    Jaden Smith, Frankie Muniz, Demi Lovato, Mindy Kaling, and Justin Bieber saw the dress as blue and black, while Anna Kendrick, B. J. Novak, Katy Perry, Julianne Moore, and Sarah Hyland saw it as white and gold. [12] Kim Kardashian tweeted that she saw it as white and gold, while her then-husband Kanye West saw it as blue and black.

  6. Chromatic adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic adaptation is the human visual system’s ability to adjust to changes in illumination in order to preserve the appearance of object colors. It is responsible for the stable appearance of object colors despite the wide variation of light which might be reflected from an object and observed by our eyes.

  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. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Blue eyes actually contain no blue pigment. The colour is caused by an effect called Tyndall scattering. Blue eyes do not actually contain any blue pigment. Eye colour is determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris [48] [49] and the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [50]

  9. Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

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    An animated sequence of simulated appearances of a red flower (of a zonal geranium) and background foliage under photopic, mesopic, and scotopic conditions. The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ⓘ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced / p ər ˈ k ɪ n dʒ i /) [1] is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the eye to shift toward the ...