The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants.
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Initially when I read the title, I was expecting the experiment to be some sort of “forced tetrachromacy”. It seems different though, more like forcing an RGB value we wouldn’t see in nature.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Not so much wouldn’t as can’t. I wasn’t able to find the source paper, but it sounds like they used a very narrow wavelength so that they only stimulated certain cells. Outside the lab, light emissions and reflections aren’t so narrow.

      • BB84@mander.xyzEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s not just the narrow wavelength. Even with a perfectly monochromatic green light, your green receptors would activate a lot but your receptors for red and blue would still activate a bit. These researchers specifically target only the green receptors to activate (by literally shooting light at those receptors in particular), so for the first time ever your brain reads a pure green signal.