Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it. Five people have experienced what scientists say is a brand-new color dubbed "olo," thanks to an experiment that involved firing laser pulses into their eyes. The method allowed them to see a.
A team of scientists claim to have discovered a new colour that no human has ever seen before. The research follows an experiment in which researchers in the US had laser pulses fired into their. We introduce a new principle for displaying color, which we call Oz: optically stimulating individual photoreceptor cells on the retina at population scale to directly control their activation levels.
In principle, arbitrary colored visual imagery can be displayed by this cell-by-cell approach, but doing so requires exquisite precision in reproducing the dynamic stimulation levels at each. How seeing the new color 'olo' opens the realm of vision science UC Berkeley scientists tricked the eye into seeing "the greenest green" they'd ever seen. They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.
By Anne Brice, Kara Manke. The researchers named their new color "olo." Study author James Fong, a computer science PhD student at University of California Berkeley, and his advisor, Dr. Ren Ng, join Host Flora Lichtman to talk about the project, and the possibility of expanding the limits of human color perception.
To create the new color experience, the researchers shined tiny lasers into participants' eyes to stimulate individual color-sensing cone cells in their retinas. Different cone cells respond to different wavelengths of light, and the pattern of activated cells determines what colors are perceived. A similar sense of awe, though grounded in science, recently unfolded at UC Berkeley.
Using a technique aptly called Oz, scientists gave participants in a study the ability to see a brand new color - not in a faraway land, but right in their lab. Using an experimental technique called "Oz," researchers stimulated the human retina such that people saw a brand. Creating the color is helping push the boundaries of vision science.Follow Short Wave on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.More questions about the science behind our everyday lives?