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New colour seen for the first time by tricking the eyes. ... upgraded the device so that it could deliver light to a small square patch of about 1000 cone cells in the retina.
Rothko, like the scientists at Berkeley, recognised that colour is an interaction between material, light and observer. It is not just about manipulating what we don’t see, but about engineering ...
Scientists claim they have discovered a new colour called ‘olo’. The snag is that it’s only ever been witnessed by five people in the world – and cannot be seen by the naked eye.
Whether a product of melanin's shielding power, a 10,000-year-old genetic glitch, or a collision of pigment and light, your eye colour might be revealing more about you than you ever realised.