From: Robert.Fish (Robert.Fish@target.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 06:41:57 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: naddy@mips.inka.de [mailto:naddy@mips.inka.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Dark Angel - An Extropian TV Show?
>
> Some corner of my memory says that optimizations for night vision
> or color vision, respectively, run actually counter to each other,
> so I expect some serious engineering difficulty there.
As I remember from having to dissect a cow eye in a color theory class,
color is detected using cones and grayscale is perceived through the rods.
I know that cones require more available light to function, thus the rods
are responsible for our night vision. If we could somehow (genetically?)
increase the sensitivity of our cones we could improve both night and color
vision at the same time.
Who knew that my design degree would ever come in handy?
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