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There's actually a way for us to experience something similar: wear eyeglasses where the two lenses have different spectra. Then these "extra colors" show up as
by raphlinus 7y ago
There's actually a way for us to experience something similar: wear eyeglasses where the two lenses have different spectra. Then these "extra colors" show up as a shimmering sensation.
I have such a pair, but have to say it's not very exciting; there's not that much metamerism in the real world.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoThis is a really good idea. In fact it should be able to promote trichromats to hexachromats, since we have two eyes. I wonder if we could calculate optimal filters, sort of like EnChroma (enchroma.com) for trichromats. Where did you get your pair? What filters did they have?
- raphlinus 7y agoIt was many many years ago, so I unfortunately don't have the details. But yes, the process should be quite similar to EnChroma.
- triclops200 7y agoWhat are they called? I'm interested in buying a pair.
- raphlinus 7y agoOh, they're not commercially available. My dad negotiated with an optical filter manufacturing company to make prototypes because I was interested in commercializing the idea. If you were going to do something similar today, very likely your best bet would be to get one side as EnChroma and the other as a neutral density filter (or a tint matching the EnChroma).