Blue Man Group - Rods And Cones mp3 download

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Each of your eyes has over 3 million photoreceptors called Rods and Cones
These receptors convert light into electrochemical signals that travel through
the optic nerve and into the brain
Here these signals trigger the neurological process scientist call, «the hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle.»
The rods in your eyes specialize in night vision and can function at mutch
lower light levels than cones but they do not respond to color
This is why we can only see in black and white when we are in the dark
The cones in your eyes on the other hand respond to color and come in three
types:
Those that respond to the color red
Those that respond to the color green
And those that respond to the color blue
When you look at something the rods and cones in your eyes fire in rapid
succession but between each firing there is a breif reseting period durring
which your eyes are unable to take in any new information
Your brain covers up these microscopic moments of blindness with lingering
after-images which help your vision apear fluid and uninterupted even though it
is not
This phenomenon known as persistance of vision is the unique physiological
quirk that makes the illusion of animation possible
The dark spaces between each still frame of animation literally sneak by while
your eyes are not looking