Comment on Wavelengths
notabot@piefed.social 15 hours agoMantis shrimps seem to be the champions of this. They have between 12 and 16 different types of cones, spanning into the ultraviolet. They have a very different visual processing system to most animals though, so despite all the cones, they don’t seem to synthesise shades between them, so they probably don’t have a very vivid image.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
They basically have most of visual processing offloaded to cones because of how simplistic their nervous system has to be.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 hours ago
You can actually distinguish colors better than a mantis shrimp.
Turns out a lot of the processing that allows us to distinguish between colors happens in our huge brains. Take that, stupid shrimp!