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Stage 0 · Fish Vision Camera

Your lure is not the colour you think it is.

Water deletes light one wavelength at a time, and the fish looking at your lure does not have your eyes. This renders both effects: the physics of the water column, then the cone set of the animal you are trying to fool.

  
At the surface your eyes
Down there the fish
Detection contrast

Pick a lure to begin.

Lure

Photos stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Water

Mesotrophic, algae-dominated. Window shifts to green — the classic bass lake.

Conditions
Eye

Dichromat, green + red. Strong on chartreuse/red separation, weak on blue.

Dichromat views are false-colour. A two-cone eye has no third axis, so its two channels are spread across your three — what you are seeing is which colours the fish can still tell apart, not a photograph of its subjective experience, which nobody can render.The full model, and where it is wrong.