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Re: [OM] Tetrachromacy

Subject: Re: [OM] Tetrachromacy
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:42:42 +0000
I guess you don’t allow colour blind pilots...

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 06:02, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jez
>
> Sorry no.  I lecture on vision in general and how it affects how pilots
> interpret the world.  It’s an important part of understanding how spatial
> orientation works, and how it can fail.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 29 Oct 18, at 18:09, Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ohhh! You're talking about color vision. I thought it was something out
> of
> > an H. P. Lovecraft novel.
> >
> > Charlie ;^)
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:35 PM ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I heard about tetrachromacy on the radio this afternoon as I drove home
> >> from work – very interesting.  At first I thought that some members of
> the
> >> List might be endowed with such as “super power” but it occurs only in
> >> women and I’m not sure if Tina would lay claim to such a colour
> >> perceptiveness.  There again, those with this capability are normally
> >> unaware of it, it seems.
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy <
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy>
> >>
> >> It’s interesting to me because I lecture on vision as part of my job,
> and
> >> to day I’ve spoken only about rods and cones (and photo-sensitive
> ganglion
> >> cells), never about the 3-colour properties of most people’s cone cells.
> >> And now I know that there are people with 4-colour cells.
> >>
> >> Chris
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