Technically no, this photographer is putting flowers under a blacklight and photographing them, resulting in a picture of basically what a human would see IRL in that scenario (aside from things like contrast/exposure variances, etc). It’s not really the same as what UV sensing animals would see. These photos are of regions of the flower converting UV light into human-visible visible light (via fluorescence, same thing as a blacklight poster). UV sensing animals are seeing actual ultraviolet being reflected by the flower as well as visible light, so it’s not the same thing.
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Chivera@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is this also how some animals see them?
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Image
I saved this image for a Caption this.
Matty_r@programming.dev 2 days ago
“Bird Vision activate!”
Walks straight into glass door
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s great! Any guesses what the bottom bars are about on either side of the ‘heart thing’?
Techranger@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Saddam Hussein in UV light.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s very unclear/nonsensical
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I spent like twenty minutes looking. I’m stumped!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Cone count is my guess. Of the photoreceptors in the eye - Rods see in low-light and cones see in color. Some animals lack or have different cones compared to humans. Hence why bees can see “bee purple”
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It seems to be a commonly used image stolen from Klaus Schmidt …blogspot.com/…/bird vision but strangely none seem to have the lower bit. How odd…