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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Children with green eyes often experienced a darkening of their eye color. [25] It was also found that 11% of the children's mothers experienced an eye color change during the same period, with most developing lighter eyes, relative to their original color at the time of their child's birth. [26]

  3. Diffraction spike - Wikipedia

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    Effect of a triangular star filter. A cross screen filter, also known as a star filter, creates a star pattern using a very fine diffraction grating embedded in the filter, or sometimes by the use of prisms in the filter. The number of stars varies by the construction of the filter, as does the number of points each star has.

  4. Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Perceiving visual static, flickering, or graininess on monochrome colors, in the sky, or in darkness can be a normal phenomenon associated with neural noise, amplified in the absence of bright visual stimuli. This effect is known as the Ganzfeld Effect. In conditions of low illumination, especially in dimly lit environments, this phenomenon is ...

  5. Mammalian eye - Wikipedia

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    Mammals normally have a pair of eyes. Although mammalian vision is not as excellent as bird vision, it is at least dichromatic for most of mammalian species, with certain families (such as Hominidae) possessing a trichromatic color perception. The dimensions of the eyeball vary only 1–2 mm among humans.

  6. Why your hair and eye colors change

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    When it comes to eye color, the melanin controlled by the OCA2 gene is diluted and thus we all have blue eyes. For those with that blue-eye gene mutation they eyes stay blue.

  7. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red–blue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images. [1] [2] Such illusions have been reported for over a century and have generally been attributed to some form of chromatic ...

  8. Why Some People Will See Mind-Blowing Colors on April 8

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    Typically, eyes have time to adjust to disappearing sunlight as evening gradually fades the light out. The eye’s rod cells (the receptors ideal for low-light conditions) activate as darkness ...

  9. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

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    Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac, these two had no traditional names. The RAF insisted that all of the stars must have names, so new names were invented for them. [8] These names have been approved by the IAU WGSN. [2] The book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by R. H. Allen (1899) [9] has had effects on star names: