alt Hacker NewsOlo (Color)
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It is possible to see something close (how close I don't know) by saturating the S & M cones instead of avoiding them. Wikipedia refers to these as 'chimerical colors':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...
The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...
Reminds me a bit of a Greg Egan story from Instantiation called Seventh Sight. Kids with artificial eyes hack them to see colors and spectrum not perceptible by humans.
I wonder why if this is the reason for the icon color of the game Olo. The left half of the icon background looks so similar.
We know so much about color, but we're in the dark ages when it comes to odor.
> The color is named after its theoretical LMS color space coordinates (0, 1, 0), which spells "olo" in leet speak.
:)
Hm, so is it correct to also call it ultragreen? In the same way that ultraviolet is the same effect but for short waves?
In this regard, it can’t be that novel of a discovery.
Having read this comment from today detailing variance in the default Windows 95 background (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329282), I'm imagining Olo would be your wallpaper if "257 colors" could be supported.
This is how people talk about how ancient greeks viewed blue, except we actually can't see this color normally.
I wonder how long it will take until this is some kind of an amusement park thing or whatever.
"They then used lasers to deliver tiny doses of light"
I didn't know there was funding for this
how bout Grorange
Time for a trip then.
> Only the five subjects of the Berkeley experiment have officially seen olo.
Basically equivalent to
source: trust me bro
If you are interested in "imaginary" colors, the gamut is actually well-specified, and (I hope it is appropriate to comment) that I made a visualization where you can drag a selection thumb over the gamut to see the "simulated" version of that color. Also include it is a 12-step contrast-sensitive color palette generator for said imaginary colors, which would allow you to make websites and (say) vscode themes using entirely imaginary colors! https://docs.moment.dev/d/hausdorff/2zmqjlmldchela29xvbzlbki...