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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Amber eye. Amber eyes are a solid color with a strong yellowish/golden or russet/coppery tint, which may be due to a yellow pigment called lipochrome (also found in green eyes). [31] [32] Amber eyes should not be confused with hazel eyes. Although hazel eyes may contain specks of amber or gold, they usually tend to have many other colors ...

  3. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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    Sun spectacles is a term used by some opticians. Spekkies is a term used predominantly in southern Australia. Sun specs (also sunspecs) is the shortened form of sun spectacles. Sunglass a monocle version. [citation needed] Sun-shades can also refer to the sun-shading eyepiece-type, although the term is not exclusive to these. Also in use is the ...

  4. Human eye - Wikipedia

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    Amber eye. Amber eyes are a solid color with a strong yellowish/golden and russet/coppery tint, which may be due to the yellow pigment called lipochrome (also found in green eyes). [38] [39] Amber eyes should not be confused with hazel eyes. Although hazel eyes may contain specks of amber or gold, they usually tend to have many other colors ...

  5. The Rarest Eye Color in the World: What It Is and Why

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    Amber eyes have a beautiful, solid gold hue that never falters. Grey eyes make up about 3 percent of the world's population—the second rarest eye color. There are also rare cases of violet and ...

  6. Chromatic adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Chromatic adaptation is the human visual system’s ability to adjust to changes in illumination in order to preserve the appearance of object colors. It is responsible for the stable appearance of object colors despite the wide variation of light which might be reflected from an object and observed by our eyes.

  7. Tyndall effect - Wikipedia

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    In eyes that contain both particles and melanin, melanin absorbs light. In the absence of melanin, the layer is translucent (i.e. the light passing through is randomly and diffusely scattered by the particles) and a noticeable portion of the light that enters this translucent layer re-emerges via a radial scattered path.

  8. Photochromic lens - Wikipedia

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    A photochromic eyeglass lens, part of the lens darkened after exposure to sunlight while the other part remained covered. A photochromic lens is an optical lens that darkens on exposure to light of sufficiently high frequency, most commonly ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In the absence of activating light, the lenses return to their clear state.

  9. Optical phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Baily's beads, grains of sunlight visible in total solar eclipses. camera obscura; Cathodoluminescence; Caustics; Chatoyancy, cat's eye gems such as chrysoberyl cat's eye or aquamarine cat's eye; Chromatic polarization; Diffraction, the apparent bending and spreading of light waves when they meet an obstruction; Dispersion