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Boxing Day punch up material | 232 comments (232 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Boxing Day punch up material (none / 1)

Different parts of the retina respond to the frequency of photons hitting them at 400 - 800 nm - electromagnetic radiation.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 03:53:33 PM EST
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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (none / 1)

That's what the pigments do.

But since there are wavelengths of light at which all pigments will react, albeit at different relative intensities, the way the visual system responds to frequency is quite convoluted and indirect.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 03:56:40 PM EST
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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (4.00 / 2)

But the receptors respond in wide bands of frequency, and colour vision doesn't analyse frequency but tricolor readings, which is thus already discrete. (IOW Migeru was right but he was only nitpicking: what you say is valid for hearing.)

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by DoDo on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 03:57:07 PM EST
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