• Wizzard@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    But compared with human eyesight, they could still see more ‘colors’ - As we see (almost) the same white in incandescent bulbs as LEDs and fluorescents, they might actually see the component colors and their intensities.

    Not unlike how we may hear a combination tone when multiple other tones are played, and hear the difference (or sum) of them.

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      7 hours ago

      How would you suggest they do that. White light near equally activates our 3 cones because all spectrums of light are in it.

      White light near equally activates all 12 shrimp cones because all spectrums of light are in it.

      Which spectrum of color is left out of white light that wouldn’t light up a cone associated with it?