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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    5 hours 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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      3 hours 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.