‘Olo’: Scientists say they have discovered a color that no one has seen before

They have been walking on Earth for a few hundred thousand years, so people may think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claims to have discovered a color that no one has seen before. The bold – and controversial – claim follows an experiment in which researchers in the US threw laser beats into their eyes. By stimulating individual cells in the retina, the laser pushed their perception beyond its natural boundaries, they say. The color description is not very impressive-the five people who have seen it call it blue-green-but that, they say, does not fully capture the wealth of experience. “We predicted from the beginning that it would look like an unprecedented color mark, but we didn’t know what the brain would do with it,” said Ren Ng, an electrical engineer at the University of California in Berkeley. “It was shocking. It is incredibly saturated. ” Researchers shared a picture of a turquoise square to give a sense of color, […]
Source: News Beast

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