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[Wednesday]

Hey.
Humans have trichromatic eyesight. (Three primary colors: Red Blue Green, as we're talking about light).

Some animals (including birds) have tetrachromatic (4 primary colors) sight, and their forth primary color is in the ultraviolet range. Thus that means that there are actually colors out there that we don't see that we may be able to someday through genetic modification.

See, the way that it works is that in your eye you have 3 different types of cone cells, and each process a different color channel, red, blue, and green. Birds have four, red, blue, green, and ???.



(P.S. You just got SCIENCED!)
 

I was reading an article about this not long and it was about modifying genes to be able to see more colours. There were also studies that some females have tetrachromic vision and it allowed them to see more shades of red, which would normally appear as one colour.

[Affray]

Modifying our genetics could work.

Or they could figure out a way to physically more cones and rods to our eyes so we can do neat stuff like see ultraviolet and have night vision like cats.

 

The theory behind women having superior colour differentiation on average is that way back when our species was a hunter/gatherer type, the women were the gatherers.

Their main source of obtaining food was picking berries/fruit and such, and having the ability to differentiate between slight shades of the same colour let them better determine ripeness, and which foods were poisonous or bad.

 

Also, men were responsible for embarking off in to the wilderness and bringing back an animal for eating.

Which, as the theory goes, is why men on average have a better spacial understanding than women.

We needed to be able to wander off for a few days hunting and know what direction home was in so we could get back with the spoils.

[Champion of Cyrodiil]

mantis shrimp have mad color receptors.

[Rejected]

Human imagination is INFINITE!

Try to imagine a new color...

Oh, hmmm... FUCK!

ducks see more colors than we do.

Was it ducks? I forgot. T

[Mister Sympa]

We had that discussion a while back, actually. Like, that exact conversation. I'd link to it if I felt like relocating it.

[SpleenBeGone]

I'd just like to say, florescent brown. 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

If there is still more room for bad science puns then allow me to say:             "Baby if you come home with me then you will be (Mg,Fe)7 Si8 O22 (OH)2"