Re:Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered...
by whatshisface on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:42PM
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>It might be possible to design a mixture of these to generate "impossible colors".
Since they just convert light between frequencies, they won't show you any colors you couldn't see by illuminating your retina with the output frequencies the old fashioned way.
Re:Mammalian Near-IR Vision Through Injectable, Self-Powered...
by jakeogh on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:07PM
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Agreed, I'm referring to type 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_colors
Edit: looking at the emission charts, it's a wider bandwidth than I expected, not sure how well the brain would be able to use the specificity of the green.
Things that are normally just cool enough to not emit significant visible would suddenly be visible. It's far far from the standard 7-14um thermal IR, but would be... well.. downright awesome.
It might be possible to design a mixture of these to generate "impossible colors".