Re: nocolor
Architeuthis said:
Octopus eyes can only see in black and white, at least thats what I've heard. They do, however, have pretty good night vision. And I believe they have some sort of sensors that work with the chromataphores.
I have also read/seen the claim that cephalopods can only see in black and white, although I haven't heard of any "sensors that work with the cromataphores"; I know that cuttlefish use their eyesight to match the environment-- blind cuttlefish lose their camouflage abilities. There is some TV show that demonstrates that they can only match the texture, rather than the color, when put in a tank with garish yellow and blue goldfish-bowl rocks.
More for the vision thread, though, it has been shown that octopi, at least, can see polarization of light... if I remember right, there were also experiments that showed that they could distinguish between horizontal and vertical lines ( - | ) but not left-diagonal and right-diagonal ( / \ ).