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What Is Cone Adaptation?
Our eyes adjust to bright and dark environments by the use of the two sensory receptor rods and cones, Where the rods detect the brightness of light and send information about how much black,white and shades of gray is picked up in the retina, when in darkness our eye are dependent on rods so eventualy our eyes adapts to the darkness and we can partially see, is also known as darkness adaptation and in the case of cones which are concentrated at the center of the retina send information about colors such as (red,green,blue) and create images that are clearer than those of rods, Cones only work only in bright light and since humans spend most of their days in sunshine it makes sense for Cone's brightness adaptation to be more responsive than
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