# Other Eyes

> A playful explainer of animal senses. List up to seven everyday things around you and pick one of six animals - a mantis shrimp, a honeybee, a dog, an insect-eating bat, a rattlesnake or a pigeon. Each thing becomes a pair of windows on a stereo-viewer picture reel: what a person notices on the left, what the animal probably gets on the right.

URL: https://other-eyes.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://other-eyes.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- Six sense cards: rounded popular-science summaries of what each animal's body can pick up, what it has that people lack, what it cannot sense at all, and what scientists are still unsure about.
- One reel pair per line of your list (at most seven; bullets and numbering stripped; a single long line is split on commas).
- A keyword guess of each pair's shift, in a fixed order: a sense you lack (petals and ultraviolet, sky, water, glass or screens and polarised light, warm bodies and heat sensing, solid things and echoes, deep rumbles and infrasound, a squeak and ultrasound); otherwise gone (what stands out is something the card says the animal cannot sense at all); otherwise sharper (a smell, sound or movement it is keen on); otherwise duller.
- The verdict, by a fixed rule over the shifts: a different world (three or more pairs reach it through a sense you lack or are gone for it); otherwise a tilted world (one or two); otherwise mostly familiar.
- Exports: Markdown, JSON and the pairs as CSV; saved reels in the browser, or in your account when signed in.
- A copyable link to a scene: it carries the list (first seven things), the animal and the reader - never a reply - and opens the same free reel.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: retell the reel
- Every thing retold for a kid or a grown-up: what a person notices (from your own words only), what the animal probably gets, and why (one fact from its sense card).
- One sentence on how the animal senses the world, a dead-simple everyday picture of its main special sense, a safe one-minute thing to try at home, and what scientists are still unsure about.
- The page re-checks every reply: one pair per thing, the verdict against the reply's own pairs, every extra sense one the animal's card lists, nothing gone for an animal whose card lists nothing it cannot sense, an unsafe try-it idea, and no internal field ids in the prose.

## Limits and honesty
- The sense cards are rounded popular-science summaries, not measurements. Nobody knows exactly what any animal experiences; the retellings are informed guesses and say so.
- The writer uses only what you typed and the animal's sense card: no invented colours, sounds, rooms, numbers or studies.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Retell the reel".
- Trend it answers: in October 2026 the mantis shrimp article on English Wikipedia jumped from 848 human page views on 19 October to 3,810 on the 20th and 48,326 on the 21st (Wikimedia daily page-view counts).

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @anthropics/eli5 (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@anthropics/eli5): explain a topic like I'm five, as a dead-simple picture explainer of how something works.