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Demonstration of this: https://dynomight.net/colors/ https://dynomight.net/colors/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808 https://news.ycombinator.com/i
by Georgelemental 2mo ago
Demonstration of this: https://dynomight.net/colors/ https://dynomight.net/colors/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808)
- toxik 2mo agoThis was very interesting, thank you for the link.
- yboris 2mo agoLove this - references one of my favorite ever optical experiences Eclipse of Titan https://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html https://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html
- deIeted 2mo agoBTW olo was not discovered in 2025 In ~2016 on the chan someone posted a completely unhinged post about this "bleen" "grue" color that nobody could see. it's probably lost to the ages now, but I remember it.
- vanderZwan 2mo agoAre you sure that wasn't referencing "grue" from this philosophical thought experiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
- rashkov 2mo agowow, highly recommended
- pwillia7 2mo agoincredible
- reoKaneshiro 2mo agoWow, mind /eye blowing! Very insightful, thank you!
- formerly_proven 2mo agoThis is heroin for the eyes. Once the hit is over you want to take another one and if you don't it'll take ten minutes or so until the "real" world won't feel like a bleached sepia picture any more.
- MisterTea 2mo agoThe fun part is the big red dot on the green background animation. Even before clicking it, as my eyes dart across it, small dark blue/black electric arc like shapes manifest all around the edges of the circle either reaching to the edge of the square or curving back to the circle like solar flares. I am red-green colorblind too.
- EvanAnderson 2mo agoThese demos really drive home the chemical / biological part of visual perception to me. As I perceive these strange new colors I can almost feel the chemical processes occurring in my cones.
- saidnooneever 2mo agoweird shit that happen kinda happen to me a lot. i felt always that maybe my brain was malfunctioning. i still kinda do, because it just happen at random when i am outside. sometimes, usually in bright morning light, sunny morning. no i dont look at the sun, yes mostly its visible looking at the blue of the sky. last time i had it while in 1 on 1 with my manager. it took a lot of struggle not to try and rub my eye or tell her i was seeing this weird rainbow snake floating around. overloaded cones, hopefully thats not some indication of something bad but just 'tired eyes'.
- NetOpWibby 2mo agoyer a wizard
- elliottkember 2mo agoIs it perhaps a scintillating scotoma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
- xattt 2mo agoIf you are a migraineur, you will discover these being the purest of the pure of red, green and blue you will ever see.
- GolfPopper 2mo ago>this weird rainbow snake floating around. Sounds like it might have been a 'floater': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater (I've had one myself for my whole life, a 'crystal worm'. I usually don't notice it, fortunately, but once it a while it will noticeably drift into my field of view while looking at a bright, blank field - like the blue sky or a monochrome computer screen.)
- tgv 2mo agoI'm color blind. I do see a somewhat different, brighter color, but it isn't particularly different from normal colors. That's just me (and my fellow aberrants)?
- gdhkgdhkvff 2mo agoOk I watched the red green picture first and was getting pretty impressed that some type of optical illusion was making the circle appear smaller and smaller to me until it vanished! Then I realized that wasn’t an optical illusion and instead just part of the setup…