Prev: Re: Interesting Camo Next: Re: Interesting Birthday Cake

Re: Interesting Camo

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:18:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Interesting Camo

>Any shift in the spectrum used for visual cues would skew what
you saw -
>obvious one is going infrared, though one of the simplest maybe
just to
>cellophane you lamp and see what you lose - Derek was once on a
night
>exercise with a guy who'd made all his map notes in red,
unfortunately the
>torches had red filters...oops ;)

You can easily buy 60 watt lightbulbs which are red, yellow,
blue or green for party lights.

>1) obviously under certain stars you're going to get different
wave lengths
>(or is that assumption invalid?) and so just travelling to a
different star
>system would impact upon what was camo and what wasn't.

Not really, you get different proportions of the wavelengths but
the eye adjusts and you probably wouldn't notice a difference in
color.	Exception:  a brown dwarf shines at only about 1000-1200
degrees, so it would have red light.  The main things that would
affect it, I'd think, would be the density and composition of
the atmosphere; however, I'd expect the local variation in
vegetation to be more important.

Prev: Re: Interesting Camo Next: Re: Interesting Birthday Cake