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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/glowing-flowers-ultraviolet-light?linkId=838005280

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world
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    Is this also how some animals see them?

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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      Yee. I saved this image for a Caption this.

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        “Bird Vision activate!”

        Walks straight into glass door

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        That’s great! Any guesses what the bottom bars are about on either side of the ‘heart thing’?

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          Saddam Hussein in UV light.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s very unclear/nonsensical

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          I spent like twenty minutes looking. I’m stumped!

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            deleted by creator

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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          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”

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            It seems to be a commonly used image stolen from Klaus Schmidt https://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/search/label/bird vision but strangely none seem to have the lower bit. How odd…

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      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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Top left thing: “I bring you love!”

    Lenny: “It’s bringing love! Break its legs!”

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    Flowers? Banal. Boring. Do hotdog!

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    https://archive.is/2025.07.10-032920/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/glowing-flowers-ultraviolet-light

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    What if the subjectisn’t a flower? Skin cancer?

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      It’s just a normal “black light” like at a dance party, or mini golf course, or like the little flashlights they use to check money and ID cards.

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      Depends on the wavelength. Could be skin cancer, vitamin D, nothing, or your manicure is done

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    I need to get a UV filter for my camera…

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      You don’t need a filter. You need a source of UV light. Plants shine in visible spectrum after being treated with UV. It doesn’t last long tho.

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        I got a full spectrum converted nex6 in April so I’ve been looking around at filters

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        Isn’t the sun a source of UV light?

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          It is.

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      I need to get UV cone surgery for my eyes. I want to be able to see these colors naturally, not have them fluoresce into a spectrum of colors I already can see.

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    Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.

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