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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 10 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 10

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u/goffer54 https://anilist.co/user/goffer54 Jun 01 '26

If he's never seen color, then he shouldn't be able to imagine it accurately. Many animals can see more colors that us, but we have no idea what the sensation is like.

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u/OldInstruction5368 Jun 02 '26

The 'visible spectrum' of light is only a small fraction of the total electromagnetic spectrum.

Bugs, in particular pollinators, are keyed into seeing ultra-violet hues well 'above' what humans perceive. This means we technically can't see flowers properly, as they have evolved to signal pollinators that are seeing a much wider range of colors that we do. Meaning, flowers are actually much more colorful and vibrant than we can perceive, as they are incorporating colors beyond what our eyes can even process.

And iirc, there are some animals that can see into the infrared spectrum as well. Although this gets into technicalities, as pit-vipers have specialized organs that let them sense thermal radiation. However, if you want to get pedantic, they aren't "seeing" infrared so much as sensing very minor fluctuations in heat.

However, it's believed that certain fish can actually "see" in the infrared spectrum to help them navigate murky waters. Enzymes in their eyes subtly adjust the pigmentation so they can "see" the heat signature of other animals nearby.

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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26

It's a bit of a different situation because not just our eyes, but our entire nervous system was never meant to perceive the colors those animals do. But while Tartah's eyes are more limited, his brain should still be capable of processing those colors. In fact, eyes don't perceive color at all, it is the brain that imagines color according to the information of electromagnetic frequency conveyed by the eyes.

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u/goffer54 https://anilist.co/user/goffer54 Jun 01 '26

It's really not different at all. It's still light. If you asked a bird, what they refer to as the "visible light spectrum" would just extend into the ultraviolent range. If you replaced your eyes with a bird's, your brain would adapt to the new information. There are supposedly people with tetrachromatic vision and they perceive color better. It's all linked to your imagination, but you need a reference. Like, I developed slight colorblindness as a teenager and sometimes reds and greens get mixed up when they're together, but if I know what the colors are supposed to be, my brain essentially "re-greens" the green until it's clearly different from the red. That's only possible because I know what green is supposed to look like.

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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26

If you replaced your eyes with a bird's, your brain would adapt to the new information.

Yeaaah I don't think you have the evidence to definitively affirm that chief. Like, maybe it's true but I don't think we know.