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Cats Have Super, Psychedelic Vision

Posted February 19, 2014 10:07 AM

From Discovery News:

Psychedelic stripes, colors and patterns on flowers, birds and bugs are just some of the things that cats can see that humans cannot.

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02/19/2014 10:45 PM

Sounds like too much catnip. Right Del ?

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02/20/2014 3:12 AM

That would explain some of the funky posts on CR4...

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02/20/2014 11:03 AM

But then again, the UV sensitivity might improve one's ability to select only the finest woods for the long bow?

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02/20/2014 3:04 PM

It is counter-intuitive to me that UV images would be blurry (as the article states); since UV has the shortest length of near-visible light, it would seem that it would provide the highest resolution.

Of course if the pixel of the detector has to be large to sense the light, that would lead to poor detail, but UV has the highest energy per photon, so it seems like the detector could be smaller, again providing higher resolution.

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