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Old 07-December-2007, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by George View Post
Are you saying red photons will excite "blue" color cones?
They sure will. I'm sure you have a graph of human color sensitivity
at hand. Preferably one that doesn't normalize the peaks. You can
see that even the red and blue have a great deal of overlap. Only
the relative rate of stimulations in the different cones enables the
signal procesing mechanisms in the eyes to distinguish different
colors, when a sufficiently large number of stimulations occur.

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