Color vision in dogs and cats is called dichromatic versus
trichromatic color vision in people.
In contrast, among Old World (African) primates such as humans, the two different X chromosome genes duplicated so that each X chromosome now carries the genes for both receptor types, giving both males and females
trichromatic color vision.
Present - day New World (South American) monkeys still use this system, which means that in these monkeys only certain females can acquire
trichromatic color vision.
The work supports the idea that a single gene mutation could have produced
trichromatic color vision and immediate changes in behavior, says Daniel Osorio, a vision scientist at Sussex University, U.K..
Not exact matches
In different sets of photographs, the scientists developed software that replicated how
colors look under different types of
color vision, including different types of
color blindness, and the type of
trichromatic vision seen in many artificial systems, with even spacing of the green and red photoreceptors.
The images are exhibited as large - scale inkjet prints which continue to explore the artists interest in
color phenomena and
trichromatic RGB
vision.