Comment by srean

4 days ago

Any chemists or crystallographers out here?

I recently got curious about whether nature solves the Bayer pattern problem and if so, how.

Are there any 3 element crystalline compounds with the formula A_2BC with roughly same sized atoms for A, B and C ?

If they have a 2D tiling that would nature's Bayer pattern.

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_aavaa_  4 days ago

Natured solved it in our eyes by doing non-uniform placements of rods and cones (rather than uniform fixed pattern) and then fixing it in “software”.

  • IAmBroom  4 days ago

    Yes! As an optical engineer, I heard endless complaints about how the camera doesn't "see" like our eyes do.

    Even the 1990s cameras were far superior to a "static picture" from our eyes: color everywhere, instead of mostly in the fovea, no blind spot, etc.

    What they lacked was: higher resolution wherever you chose to concentrate within the scene at one moment, jagged lines if they weren't perfectly aligned (your eyes correct near-lines to be LINES), and (in the 1990s) lower peak resolution.

    (Weirdly, people used to argue that "digital would NEVER have better resolution than film, even though it was clearly trending upwards to and past that static goal...).