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Re: The White Tower ... Dark vision and programming dark vision eye-glasses

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Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On 15/08/2026 3:52 PM, Mr. Chang Man-wai wrote:
>> On 8/13/2026 9:09 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>>> I'm now here in alt.magic.history, and we don't confuse fantasy with
>>> reality.  We leave that up to trolls in comp.lang.c, and potentially
>>> alt.magic but I don't know them yet.
>>
>> In another thread, you talked about dark vision.
>>
>> If and only if one can build a pair of eye-glasses
>> using modern-day computer technology that does dark
>> vision, C programming is needed to display what the
>> eye-glasses can see using mathematics related to
>> graphics. :)
>>
> 
> Yes, here in alt.magic.history, we do not confuse fantasy with reality.
> 
> I admit I do somewhat conflate the two in alt.fantasy, but that's me
> writing fiction, and everyone who reads alt.fantasy knows that fiction
> is not reality.
> 
> Now, on the subject of dark vision, I do not believe that's done with
> the eyes.  Eyes -- as everyone knows -- are light sensors of the bio-
> logical type, and don't /sense darkness/.  Now, magical creatures* with
> dark vision therefore have to sense their surroundings with some other
> organ.  I'm pretty sure that's rare, because bats use sound to navigate
> in darkness, and that's not /dark vision/ -- at least in this paper on
> magical history.

I have keen dark vision. One of my cousins is the opposite and can't see 
at all in the dark. Two nights ago I was in a park. I could barely make 
anything out. The next night I went back and to me it seemed like 
twilight. Have you ever heard of adjustments to the dark that improve 
after a day of going through the sunshine and stuff and coming back?

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