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Vision in bright light with light-adapted eyes believed to be mediated by the cones of the retina.

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  • - Adaptation of the physical receiver to the photopic eye response curve.
  • Their spectral sensitiveness is various and not congruent with the photopic eye response curve.
  • Even the one octave of visible light is not featureless, at least not to normal individuals and not in photopic vision.
  • The graphic representation of this ratio shows the spectral photopic eye response curve for daylight and night vision (Fig. 1).
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