'Olo' is a brand-new color only ever seen by 5 people
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Using an experimental technique called "Oz," researchers stimulated the human retina such that people saw a brand-new color.

Using an experimental technique called “Oz,” researchers stimulated the human retina such that people saw a brand-new color.

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    Wouldn’t it be more accurate to describe it as a brand new eye stimuli? There is no new color added to the spectrum, just a new way to get electrical signals to the brain?

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      Well really every single wave length could conceivably be a unique colour if we had receptors for it…what we see of the full spectrum, does not really represent the spectrum .

      Since they stimulated only the M cone without the S and L getting the normal natural stimulation for green, they technically are seeing a new level of green colour (since red and blue got 0)