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The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You say that, but Magenta is similar. It's a unique reaction in our perception to two different wavelengths of light combining. Magenta is not in the rainbow.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The whole point was that there is physical combination of wavelengths that induces pink sensation but there is none for this new olo, this is why i think it is not a property of light but purely a human sensation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, that's the entire point I'm making. In the same way magenta is not a single wavelength but a side effect of our perception, olo is an effect of stimulating individual types of cone cells instead of the eye as a whole.

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