logoalt Hacker News

snarkconjecturetoday at 10:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

Computer screens have three-dimensional color spaces. Tetrachromacy doesn't change that.


Replies

tgvtoday at 10:24 AM

Is that so? Our color perception is weird. It's one dimension split in three overlapping sectors. Adding a fourth sector may add information that makes it easier to distinguish colors.

show 2 replies
Zardoz84today at 11:17 AM

And the eye cones not are sharp filter, they overlap ranges with mid-low sensibility. That must be nought to someone with Tetrachromacy to percibe something different on a RGB screen.

> More precisely, she had an additional cone type L′, intermediate between M and L in its responsivity, and showed 3 dimensional (M, L′, and L components) color discrimination for wavelengths 546–670 nm (to which the fourth type, S, is insensitive). Source: Wikipedia