UC Berkeley Researchers Reveal 'Olo,' a Color Beyond Human Vision
- Researchers enabled five people to perceive a new color on April 18.
- Scientists used the Oz method to stimulate specific cone cells.
- Participants described the new shade, named "olo," as intensely blue-green.
- Five subjects saw the color, which one expert called "a technological tour de force."
- This technique could help researchers study vision and potentially aid color blind individuals.
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'Impossible colours' you CAN'T see as scientists discover mystery new hue 'Olo'
THE world is full of colour – but there’s more than what meets the human eye. There is an untold number of “impossible colours” that humans can’t see or even imagine. GettyThe mantis shrimp is king of the colour wheel, detecting ten times more colour than a human[/caption] Fong et al., Sci. Adv., 2025The closest representation to the new colour “Olo”[/caption] Earlier this week, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Univ…
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