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The Guardian's article on this[1] includes a quote from an eminent colour expert at City: > The claim left one expert bemused. “It is not a new colour,” said J
by ratatoskrt 1y ago
The Guardian's article on this[1] includes a quote from an eminent colour expert at City:
> The claim left one expert bemused. “It is not a new colour,” said John Barbur, a vision scientist at City St George’s, University of London. “It’s a more saturated green that can only be produced in a subject with normal red-green chromatic mechanism when the only input comes from M cones.” The work, he said, had “limited value”.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-c...
- codesnik 1y agoidentifying and shining light only on specific type of cells on retina through the iris is of limited value? I personally didn't know we even have that kind of precision.
- ratatoskrt 1y agoIt's just a typical response. What he means (in an admittedly unnecessary, snarky way) is that this is not going to revolutionise perceptual colour science. It's not going to be an out-of-this-world experience, nor will it change our understanding of how humans perceive colour. I personally think it's pretty cool, though.
- mmooss 1y agoAgreed; that and the fact that it can be programmatic is either the major result or one of two. The title of the paper is, Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale And they say, These results are proof-of-principle for programmable control over individual photoreceptors at population scale.