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11-23-2021, 04:39 PM | #22 |
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Somehow I don't think that animals would develop glass lenses. Though in an alternate paleontology where metazoans derived from glass sponges I suppose it could happen.
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11-23-2021, 05:20 PM | #23 |
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Generally speaking, if I had a creature able to see in the IR band in a fantasy or horror game, I would assume that it's due to whatever power the being has (magic, psionics, spirits, et cetra), rather than trying to create a scientific justification for something that doesn't make a lot of sense.
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11-24-2021, 04:24 AM | #24 | |
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************************************** I've been thinking about what the most useful things to detect using magical vision are: oxygen looks like it might work, though they won't call it that. Water, Rock, and air all have it in different densities. Metals might also work: Iron and copper in cave walls and in creature's blood would give a lot of information. Heat... we've discussed!
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11-24-2021, 03:07 PM | #27 |
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This would explain dragons with huge gemstones for eyes. Well, not the 'evolve' part, but the large IR refracting lenses part.
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11-24-2021, 06:19 PM | #29 |
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True.
The chambered nautilus has eyes that are open to the exterior and filled with the ambient sea-water. Perhaps something could have a similar eye open to and filled by the outside air.
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