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by corysama 5693 days ago
While looking for the illustration above, I also found this page http://starizona.com/acb/ccd/advtheorycolor.aspx with this illustration of "Spectral response of the dark-adapted human eye. Note the lack of red sensitivity." http://starizona.com/acb/ccd/advimages/eyeqenight.jpg

Compared to the daylight-adapted eye: http://starizona.com/acb/ccd/advimages/eyeqe.jpg

This is interesting news to me.

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This caught up with me once as a young teenager; I was driving home on Halloween (totally sober) and I completely didn't see a stoplight. The red just blended in with the darkness.