 Thermographic vision(Natural) and Thermal Smk. Grenades |
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 May 22 2013, 04:53 PM
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QUOTE (Temperance @ May 22 2013, 11:35 AM)  A more important question: Does the sheep need them? -Temperance No, but they could use some safety goggles on windy days. |
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May 22 2013, 05:29 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,317 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
QUOTE (SpellBinder @ May 22 2013, 08:48 AM) Great, now I feel stupid for how I described in a story a character's thermographic vision. For him, in situations where there's almost no light (he also has lowlight vision, both natural) he starts to see things in a grayscale from the heat, like a lot of the FLIRs you'll see from police chase helicopters. That description is just as good as the one in "Changeling" (the novel about Peter "Professor" Clarris) with its reddish description. From a biological standpoint the most likely natural mechanic would involve electrochemical reaction based on near-infrared (similar to the electrochemical reaction for normal light, just with a different base molecule) and one's brain could turn that into grayscales just as well as varying degrees of red or even more (for us unpronouncable) colors. At least you didn't opt for the blurry rainbow colored variant usually associated with long wave infrared in classic thermographics. |
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May 22 2013, 07:28 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Cochise @ May 22 2013, 12:29 PM) or even more (for us unpronouncable) colors They aren't unpronouncable, they just don't have names. If we could see those wavelengths, they'd have names. (Personally I'd go with Octorange) |
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May 22 2013, 08:03 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,317 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
QUOTE (Draco18s @ May 22 2013, 09:28 PM) They aren't unpronouncable, they just don't have names. ~clap~ So you had to nitpick ... QUOTE If we could see those wavelengths, they'd have names. ... but the point is, that we simply cannot see them. And just like a person, who has been blind since birth can ofc technically pronounce a color name as long as he/she isn't simultaniously mute, he/she simply won't be able to pronounce in a meaningful way, where both the sender and the recipient have an identical concept associated with the word. Thus my use of the word of unpronoucable. I'm sorry if that comes as an insult to your understanding of the english language. QUOTE (Personally I'd go with Octorange) Personally I'd use normal colornames with an added syllable: hyper-red, hyper-green, etc. with hyper-white being the mixed color of all sub colors (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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May 22 2013, 08:41 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Cochise @ May 22 2013, 03:03 PM) Personally I'd use normal colornames with an added syllable: hyper-red, hyper-green, etc. with hyper-white being the mixed color of all sub colors (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Well never mind, I screwed it up anyway. |
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May 22 2013, 08:48 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
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