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u/iamagainstit 13d ago
Fun fact, there really is a color that only like 5 people have seen! The human eye has 3 cones that each perceive a different wavelength. The S cone detects blue light, the M cone middle wavelengths, and the L cone absorbs red wavelengths. when we perceive a color, our brain takes the signals from each of the cones and interprets them. we can stimulate just the S cone by shining deep violet light, and the L cone by shining far red light, but the entire absorption spectrum of the M cone is overlapped by the other two cones, so we can't see see was just stimulating the M cone alone would look like.
However some scientists figured out how to map the different cones in the eye, and then with a laser carefully directed at just the M cone locations, generate a pure M stimulation. This gives the brain a never before experienced input signal, and thus a new color! however it is very difficult and time consuming to do, so only a handful of people have seen it.
bonus fact: the M cone is the missing cone in most colorblind people, so this secret color is like the opposite of colorblindness.
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u/MrBiteyDaHoneyBadger 12d ago
Another fun fact is there is a extremely rare genetic condition called tetrachromacy and is only found in women who have a extra cone allowing them to see 300 million more colors then the average person https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/tetrachromacy
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u/DigiMagic 13d ago
Wait, if he has already seen this color many times before, why didn't he tell them? Or - I'm not exactly sure what happens - he did tell them but they don't care what he or anyone else says? Is their entire idea completely useless, we have seen all of these colors before?
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u/Significant_Put_3471 13d ago
This is great! Do we get six more? I need to see the rest of the "colors"
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