Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has seen before. The bold – and contested – assertion follows an experiment in which researchers in the US had laser pulses fired into their eyes. By stimulating individual cells in the retina, the laser pushed their perception beyond its natural limits, they say. Their description of the colour is not too arresting – the five people who have seen it call it blue-green – but that, they say, does not fully capture the richness of the experience. “We predicted from the beginning that it would look like an unprecedented colour signal but we didn’t know what the brain would do with it,” said Ren Ng, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. “It was jaw-dropping. It’s incredibly saturated.” The researchers claimed this square was the closest colour match they had to olo. The researchers shared an image of a turquoise square to give a sense of the colour, which they named olo, but stressed that the hue could only be experienced through laser manipulation of the retina. https://www.theguardian.com/science...m-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
1. I'm not shooting lasers into my eye to see some new color. 2. I thought this was what LSD was for.
