The subject of seeing unusual colors reminds me of a project I’ve wanted to do for years. Alas, it’s the sort of project that requires specialized equipment, and one would need to really be committed to do it properly. Here’s the gist of it:<\/p>\n
Given that the human mind is capable of extraordinary feats of perceptual remapping and interpretation, it is plausible that we could map a wider spectrum into a narrower one. Specifically, suppose we set up three cameras: one that sees in infrared, another that sees in R,G,B, and a third that sees in ultraviolet.<\/p>\n
Then we remap the resulting five-band image into a narrower spectrum: Infrared becomes red, red becomes orange\/yellow, blue becomes cyan, and ultraviolet becomes violet.<\/p>\n
Clearly information will be lost in the course of chromatic compression. But will our brains compensate? Will we be able to use our higher level knowledge of the world to perceptually reconstruct the full R,G,B portion of the spectrum in our minds, thereby freeing us to “see” the infrared and ultraviolet bands?<\/p>\n
If so, this would be a way for people to see beyond the bounds of visible light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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