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Am I missing something here? Whats the size of his monitor got to do with seeing everything in black and white Mr Monkey?

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Quoted from BoneS

Am I missing something here? Whats the size of his monitor got to do with seeing everything in black and white Mr Monkey?

Lesson in eye biology incoming…

We have rod and cone cells in our eyes that collect the light and pass on signals to ganglion cells that then pass them on to the brain. Each ganglion cell has input from a various number of rods or cones creating a receptive field for each ganglion. There is one type of rod and three types of cone with three different pigments in that respond to different wavelengths of light.

Cones have a LOT less cells per ganglion than rods and cones dominate the central retina, it’s where all your good vision is. (little experiment you can do to see this is look at a page of text somewhere in the middle, lock your eyes on one word and see how far away from that word WITHOUT MOVING your eyes you can still see what is written in a vertical direction, it’s around 2-4 lines depending on how big the text is, ie a very small area compared to the large overall visual field).

The way our retinas are wired means we have good acuity centrally at the expense of low light sensitivity and good peripheral sensitivity with poor acuity.

Now imagine you were standing in front of a light source that put out 1 unit of light per second and your ganglions needed 3 units of light per second to activate and send a signal to your brain. Your rods are arranged so that 5 rods go to one ganglion where your cones are 1 to 1. The cones will never activate as only 1 unit of light is hitting the ganglion whereas 5 units of light hit the rod’s ganglion receptive field and a signal is sent…the downside being there is no way for the brain to say where in the receptive field the light source is, just somewhere in that field.

Under low light levels rods dominate vision, we see in black and white with poor acuity, under high light levels the cones can activate and we see in colour with high acuity.

This is why we see in black and white at night and why looking just off to the side of what you want to see in the dark lets you see dimmer lights.

People with no cones have very poor visual acuity, hence why a huge monitor would help.

Hope I’ve explained that in a somewhat understandable way… :/

Quoted from dodgydogman

Maybe hes just silly?

This is undeniably true but a strange explanation for my post.

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