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  2. Scotopic vision - Wikipedia

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    Scotopic vision occurs at luminance levels of 10 −3 [7] to 10 −6 [citation needed] cd/m 2.Other species are not universally color blind in low-light conditions. The elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) displays advanced color discrimination even in dim starlight.

  3. Averted vision - Wikipedia

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    Averted vision works because there are virtually no rods (cells which detect dim light in black and white) in the fovea: a small area in the center of the eye. The fovea contains primarily cone cells, which serve as bright light and color detectors and are not as useful during the night. This situation results in a decrease in visual ...

  4. Cone cell - Wikipedia

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    Cones function best in relatively bright light, called the photopic region, as opposed to rod cells, which work better in dim light, or the scotopic region. Cone cells are densely packed in the fovea centralis , a 0.3 mm diameter rod-free area with very thin, densely packed cones which quickly reduce in number towards the periphery of the retina.

  5. Dimmer - Wikipedia

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    A common dual dimmer module used in stage lighting A dimmer. A dimmer is a device connected to a light fixture and used to lower the brightness of the light.By changing the voltage waveform applied to the lamp, it is possible to lower the intensity of the light output.

  6. Rhodopsin - Wikipedia

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    It is a light-sensitive receptor protein that triggers visual phototransduction in rods. Rhodopsin mediates dim light vision and thus is extremely sensitive to light. [6] When rhodopsin is exposed to light, it immediately photobleaches. In humans, it is regenerated fully in about 30 minutes, after which the rods are more sensitive. [7]

  7. Gloom - Wikipedia

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    Gloom is a low level of light which is so dim that there are physiological and psychological effects. Human vision at this level becomes monochrome and has lessened clarity. Optical and psychological effects

  8. Dim - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation dim may refer to: Dimension , a measure of how many parameters is sufficient to describe an object in mathematics Dimension (vector space) , the number of vectors needed to describe the basis in a vector space, in linear algebra

  9. Darkness - Wikipedia

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    The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré. Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low luminance because the hue-sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina are inactive when light levels are insufficient, in the range of visual perception referred to as scotopic vision.