My personal favorite is "Hyperbolic Red" – which is the brightest pink you'll never actually see in nature.
hankbond 2 days ago [-]
that is quite the green.
aaroninsf 2 days ago [-]
That link is fantastic.
JohnBooty 2 days ago [-]
I can see an extra shade of purple. I had essentially the same lens removal cataract surgery as Monet did. Like Monet, I can see slightly into the ultraviolet range, because the retina can react to some UV frequencies that the lens normally blocks! Unlike Monet, I'm not much of a painter.
It really does defy words, for obvious reasons. The short answer is that it's "like purple... but even more purple"
The slightly longer version is: imagine moving a color slider from red to purple and then keep going a little more.
I have a taste of this when I got IOLs last month (cataract surgery). I now see colors I haven't seen in years. And I suspect that the IOL passes more blue light than my natural lens ever did, even when I was young.
josefritzishere 2 days ago [-]
I dislike the color hexadecimal code #00FFCC very much and it's not even the real Olo color.
redbell 2 days ago [-]
A question I, sometimes, ask my friends and relatives when discussing the human brain and its limitations is: Imagine a color that you've never seen?
From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color>
My personal favorite is "Hyperbolic Red" – which is the brightest pink you'll never actually see in nature.
It really does defy words, for obvious reasons. The short answer is that it's "like purple... but even more purple"
The slightly longer version is: imagine moving a color slider from red to purple and then keep going a little more.
https://youtu.be/mGYmiQkah4o?si=L8JKYQP5JqRjyFEt