Optical Receptors in Vaders Helmet

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2005-05-28 02:02am

How does Darth Vader differentiate between different colors if all he see is red? The ending in ROTS made it seem like red is what he sees. Is it possible that there's different visual modes in his helmet? I don't ever recall from the visual dictionaries that talks of such.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-05-28 02:12am

Who says that he needs to differentiate colours?

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-05-28 02:43am

Perhaps the red filter is merely the standby mode for the sensor display, when the mask is powered up. It might actually have more types of displays once the mask is sealed and fully activated.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-05-28 02:45am

Well, having them be red all the time helps tie into his line in RotJ: "Just for once let me look on you with my own eyes."

Additionally, Vader's lenses are often occasionally depicted in art as being red-coloured rather than black, and they are actually red in ANH.

Winston Blake · Post by **Winston Blake** » 2005-05-28 05:02am

Initially, the display kindof opens up and the bright white light of the medical lamp shines through, before being altered (into a red diamond hatched pattern with a thin yellow reticle-like superimposition). So i'd think the helmet isn't inherently a red view, thats just the startup default. The white light shining through might indicate Vader had seen Luke's face perfectly normally before, but was just feeling sentimental what with certain death and all.

Also, for all we know, it's a false colour display that shows reds as blues and reddish-oranges as green or something.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-05-28 05:06am

Bah, rediculous. Straw-graspers and your silly startup nonsense.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2005-05-28 08:30am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bah, rediculous. Straw-graspers and your silly startup nonsense.

The idea that Vader literally "sees red" all the time is an enthralling one.

"I AM VADER. RAWWRR!!!"

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2005-05-28 02:10pm

Cykeisme wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bah, rediculous. Straw-graspers and your silly startup nonsense. :P
The idea that Vader literally "sees red" all the time is an enthralling one.

"I AM VADER. RAWWRR!!!"

Great. Now you've got me thinking of Vader consrantly going on about pointless hypothetical situations...