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Old 04-02-2017, 07:03 PM   #46
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
However, there are Websites that talk about fish that can see in the NIR. There's even a crazy biohacking proposal to modify human eyes to see NIR! How does that affect your analysis?
Well, at certain particle sizes NIR penetrates better than visible light, though for underwater that seems unlikely to apply unless water is very shallow and ranges are very short (conversely, haze is worse in the UV). These effects are probably below reasonable GURPS resolution.
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