Night Vision & CVD
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Night vision
And it's similarities
To Colour Vision deficiency
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During WW2, colour deficient pilots were able to see the outline of vehicles and people that used camouflage without night vision glasses. Because the loss of colour, these pilots could see in the dark better than others.
But it depends on the condition of the eyes of the person that makes this true.
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Based on information, colourblind people can see better in the dark, making them top dog when the squad doesn't have NV goggles with them. That also makes them good spotters when someone is hiding with camouflage.
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If I didn't know any better, I would say that because of colourblindness that night vision was discovered, because they are very similar in a sense.
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The way colour blindness works is that the retina of the eye has two types of light-sensitive cells called rods and cones.
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Both are located at the back layer of the eye that processes images.
Rods work at low conditions to help night vision,
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So, people that are colour blind have bad or damaged cones. Just like being blind or deaf, your other senses, in this case your rods,
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Are honed to work better. So colour blind people have better rods than non colour blind people. So there are similarities to night vision and CVD.
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In conclusion to this story. ColourVision Deficiency allows some colours of light to be perceived. Night vision allows more light to be perceived, but these types can't be seen by the human eye.
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So these goggles allow near-infrared and ultraviolet radiation. It's like night vision is steroids for the eyes, and colourblind people are just the jocks. If you see the reference I'm making that's great. But if not then that's ok.
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To show my point better,
Normal vision: colourAble, some night vision
Colourblind: some colour, good night vision
Night vision goggles: little colour, night visionAble.
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