Digitally recreating Japanese night optics

Do we know what ships looked like at night through Imperial Japanese Navy optics?

Not directly, but a digital reconstruction project could simulate the view from surviving technical evidence.

Photographs and surviving demonstrations do not clearly reproduce what Japanese naval lookouts saw through their night optics. The absence of a direct visual record makes performance difficult to communicate from written descriptions alone. A project was attempting to recreate the experience digitally. A computer simulation could combine the optical characteristics with realistic night conditions and show what targets might have looked like. Such reconstruction would help test claims about Japanese night-fighting advantages without presenting modern imagery as an original wartime view.