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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:02pm on 2008-02-27

Still not up to a proper post or catching up on replies/email, but I wanted to blurt this out before I forgot:

Yesterday or the day before, I looked at Perrine and her pupils were missing. Not just thin slits -- I couldn't see them at all. I'm not certain exactly what was going on there, because usually even in full sunlight I can see a slit, and this was daytime but indoors. (Ten minutes later: normal-looking cat eyes again. And she acted like she could see just fine. So I'm assuming this is a normal phenomenon I'd just never noticed before, rather than a malfunction.)

She could see (AFAICT), so her pupils had to have been letting in some light; they were just too small for me to see them at arm length. Don't you start getting diffraction effects interfering with resolution at really high-numbered f-stops like that?

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geekosaur: orange tabby with head canted 90 degrees, giving impression of "maybe it'll make more sense if I look at it this way?" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] geekosaur at 03:40am on 2008-02-28
Consider pinhole cameras?
 
posted by [identity profile] jmax315.livejournal.com at 01:41pm on 2008-02-28
Your picayune physical laws do not apply to cats; they are above such things.
 
posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 12:42am on 2008-02-29
monochromatic laser assisted mumblefrotz aiming computer postprocessing blink zat zot zoink whee!

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