• trebligdivad 3 days ago

    While trying to read this, I find this better description of the original 2 photon vision stuff; fun!

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269892...

    • munchler 3 days ago

      Thank you! The original link is nearly incomprehensible: "Imagine that instead of viewing an image through a lens, you look through a kaleidoscope that focuses invisible light to obtain a new range of colors." WTF?

      • modeless 2 days ago

        Yeah I think an LLM was heavily involved in the "writing" of this article.

        • klipt 2 days ago

          Yeah it's like they were trying to stretch out the article length by repeating the same few points over and over in different words.

        • ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago

          That was my initial reaction, as well.

        • ghostly_s 2 days ago

          Your link isn't working for me, do you have a doi?

      • dheerajvs 2 days ago

        The title made me think of the minimum number of photons detectable by human vision. Apparently, we can detect single photons:

        https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

        • akira2501 2 days ago

          I wonder if that's why Angela Collier posted this recently:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatpZgVWf8w&t=1191s

          • tbenst 2 days ago

            This is a well known phenomenon. It accounts for example in the flash perceived when someone inadvertently looks at an infrared class 5 laser and is blinded

            • staunton 2 days ago

              In standard laser classification, there are only four classes. Class 4 includes IR laser welding systems...

              • tbenst 2 days ago

                You’re right, I meant class 4

                • thechao 2 days ago

                  Maybe they're only blind briefly?