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Re:Polychromatic Pixels by BurningFrog on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:48PM (#41001133)
In this sense our hearing is much better than our color vision.

We can distinguish the combination a huge number of frequencies between 20-20000Hz.

But we can only distinguish 3 independent colors of light.

Of course our vision is vastly better than hearing for determining where the sound/light comes from.

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Re:Polychromatic Pixels by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:36PM (#41010248)
Total tangent, but is that because of the wavelengths involved? I imagine a “sound camera” would have to be huge to avoid diffraction (but that’s just intuition), requiring impracticality large ears. Likewise i imagine that perceiving “chords” of light requires sensing on really tiny scales, requiring impractically small complex structure in the eyes?

Anybody know the answer?

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