How seeing the new color 'olo' opens the realm of vision science (news.berkeley.edu)

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[-] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

So olo because it's the middle of color?

[-] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Another name for it is "olou"

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Get this man a MacArthur Genius Grant immediately

[-] neonix@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

I seem to remember reading it's so named because only the "G" in the (roughly) RGB cones are stimulated, so a 0-1-0 mapping onto the R-G-B colour space. 0-1-0 > olo.

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