Scientists Claim To Have Found Color No One Has Seen Before (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/0654204/scientists-claim-to-have-found-color-no-one-has-seen-before
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
> "We predicted from the beginning that it would look like an unprecedented color signal but we didn't know what the brain would do with it," said Ren Ng, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. "It was jaw-dropping. It's incredibly saturated."
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> The researchers shared an image of a turquoise square to give a sense of the color, which they named olo, but stressed that the hue could only be experienced through laser manipulation of the retina. "There is no way to convey that color in an article or on a monitor," said Austin Roorda, a vision scientist on the team. "The whole point is that this is not the color we see, it's just not. The color we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo."
The findings have been [2]published in the journal Science Advances .
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
[2] http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052
Scientists claim⦠(Score:2)
To have found a first post never seen before.
Octarine (Score:1)
They have loose an opportunity to call it octarine, the colour of magic.
Uranium UV Glow? (Score:1)
This looks really similar to the glow given off by uranium glass under UV light.
Colors (Score:2)
Can anyone say that manipulation with anything is producing a real color? I mean, manipulate yourself with LSD and you will see colors that don't exist.
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Yea, they kind of worded it backwards. All colours are real colours, it just that your eyes can not perceive real colours, only a likely guess as to what colour something might be and sometimes a colour it can't be. So we can't see the difference between just yellow and the pair of colours red and green, but can correctly say they neither case is blue.
So a color people will never see.... (Score:2)
could only be experienced through laser manipulation of the retina. Geez, was this a waste of time and $$$.
Re: So a color people will never see.... (Score:2)
I would still rather waste my money on that laser being beamed into my retina than The Minecraft Movie.
AKA 'two' (Score:3)
> The name olo comes from the binary 010, indicating that of the L, M and S cones, only the M cones are switched on.
So I guess we can also call this colour 'Two' too.
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Wym, its 'Ten'.
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I hope you don't write code if that is what you think. They say "binary 010" i.e. 0 x 2^2 + 1 x 2^1 + 0 x 2^0 = 2.
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There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who didn't expect a joke in trinary.