From:	Peter Leitch <pleitch_hpcs@*******.com.au>
Subject:	Re: GIZMOS et al
Date:	Sun, 01 Sep 1996 23:49:03 +1000

At 13:09 27/08/96, Andre' Selmer wrote:
>@ > Here is an idea that I want to throw around. What would the
>@ > minimum light requirement be for low light eyes to work. There reason
>@ > being that my character came up with the following and in theory it
>@ > should work. If one exposed some phosperous to the equivilent of a
>@ > flash pak, then scattered the power, would that provide enought light
>@ > for the low light eyes to work from? (I would generally assume that
>@ > there is not enought light for normal eyes to work with.
>@
>@ I'm guessing here, but I would suggest that low-light means normal night is
>@ like an overcast day, therefore your phosperous idea would be a little like
>@ a series of candles scattered over the area. The points of light themselves
>@ could become quite annoying. 'Course, some smart-arse might just light it
>@ on you, causing you to become blinded......

As far as I'm aware, low-light vision is the same principle as the starlight
scope.
A starlight scope works literally in starlight. It's like looking at a
really bad
black-and-white TV screen, with lots of snow (interference) as well. I
think the
fantasy equivalent (AD&D ultravision and SRII low-light) is not quite as good
as the real thing; that is, I think you need at least the light from a half moon
for the thing to work well enough.
PML

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Peter Leitch
<pleitch_hpcs@*******.com.au>
Canberra, Australia