Parietal eye....third eye...more important than you might think...

[kinyonga]

Since blue light and green light are involved in this....what does using a blue light on them for heat?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/parietal-eye

"the researchers covered the lizards' third eyes with paint or — in a later, more gruesome iteration — removed their third eyes altogether. In both cases, the lizards swam in random directions, no longer able to navigate at all"...
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/thirdeyesteering/

"The lizard’s parietal eye photoreceptors contain two pigments per cell, blue and green. Having two different pigments allows the cell to respond to two different colors of light and process that information within the same cell"...
"So incorporating two different pigments and two separate signaling molecules in one cell may have been an economical way, in a primitive eye with relatively few cell types, to tell the transitions of the day based on changes in the spectrum of sunlight,” says Chih-Ying Su, Ph.D., the first author of the study and a former neuroscience graduate student at Hopkins"...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060415111626.htm

Not chameleons...but some of you many like it anyway...
https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/animals/animals-10-00489/article_deploy/animals-10-00489.pdf

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

All because FloridaChameleonLiving's cham had a piece of stuck shed...

 

[kinyonga]

Sometimes the smallest things drive my mind to learn/inform more!

It was also because of people using blue lights too.

 

[kinyonga]

Blue light bulbs...
"This full-spectrum lamp emits energy across all visible wavelengths from 400nm to 700nm and UVA rays from 315nm to 400nm"...
https://www.aquariumdepot.ca/zilla-day-blue-light-incandescent-bulb-50-w.html

 

[Mountain Dragon]

That is one of the most intriguing and interesting things I’ve evry learned

 

[kinyonga]

That is one of the most intriguing and interesting things I’ve evry learned

Humans have them too but they are deep in the scull.

 

[Lindasjackson]

This was very interesting Kinyonga! Just a couple days ago I replaced Eustis’s zoomed blue basking bulb with a halogen white bulb because I read somewhere that they aren’t good for him. Thanks for posting this.

 

[kinyonga]

The blue basking lights seem to be said by manufacturers to produce white light...I'm not sure. I'd like to see the light from it run through a prism and compared to the light of the sun run through a prism to see/compare the breakdown.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Humans have them too but they are deep in the scull.

Wow didn’t know that

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Wow didn’t know that

Oh wait I did know if it’s the thing I’m thinking of it helps u imagine pictures in ur head I have aphantasia which means I don’t have that so I can’t imagine pictures if u say imagine the table I eat at I could describe it but not picture it in my head I’m really good at drawing but I have to have a reference to draw bc of this ( here’s some things I’ve drawn)

 

[Lindasjackson]

Oh wait I did know if it’s the thing I’m thinking of it helps u imagine pictures in ur head I have aphantasia which means I don’t have that so I can’t imagine pictures if u say imagine the table I eat at I could describe it but not picture it in my head I’m really good at drawing but I have to have a reference to draw bc of this ( here’s some things I’ve drawn)

Great pictures! I’ve never heard of aphantasia I don’t think. That’s very interesting.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Great pictures! I’ve never heard of aphantasia I don’t think. That’s very interesting.

Yea I just leaned yesterday I thought everyone couldn’t imagine a picture or color

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Yea I just leaned yesterday I thought everyone couldn’t imagine a picture or color

It’s not really super bad and u can live with it but it’s hard for an artist I always thought I was cheating by looking at references but I found this

 

[Mountain Dragon]

It’s not really super bad and u can live with it but it’s hard for an artist I always thought I was cheating by looking at references but I found this

Look at comments

 

[kinyonga]

So... @Green Dino ...when you try to imagine the table what do you see?

 

[Mountain Dragon]

So... @Green Dino ...when you try to imagine the table what do you see?

I see nothing but like some gray and I outline the shape with my eyes moving but that’s it and it gives me a headache

 

[Mountain Dragon]

I see nothing but like some gray and I outline the shape with my eyes moving but that’s it and it gives me a headache

Also I always thought I was cheating by looking at a reference and that I wasn’t a real artist till I found this video and saw comments saying they have to look at reference to

 

[kinyonga]

I see only black and can't visualize anything. I didn't even know there was such a thing until today.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

I see only black and can't visualize anything. I didn't even know there was such a thing until today.

Wow it’s not very known( what I mean isn’t that not a lot of people have it it’s that a lot of people don’t know they have it and that’s it not normal to not see) u might have it to! Anpahntasia budds I probably spelled it worng

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Wow it’s not very known( what I mean isn’t that not a lot of people have it it’s that a lot of people don’t know they have it and that’s it not normal to not see) u might have it to! Anpahntasia budds I probably spelled it worng

But spelling is bc of my phone not me I have all A’s