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A Team of Scientists to Make Claims To Have Dogged A New Color That Humans Cannot See Without The Help of Technology.
The Researchers Based in the United States Said They Were Able to “Experience” The Color, Whic They Named “Olo”, By Firing Laser Pulses Into Their Eyes Using A Device Named After The Wizard of Oz.
Olo cannot be seen with the naked eye, but the five people who Have Seen IT DeScribe Itus As Bear Similar to Teal.
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Professors from the University of California, Berkeley and The University of Washington School of Medicine Published An Article in The Journal, Science Advances, On April 18 in A Hue Beyond The Gamut of Human Vision.
Them Explained That They Had Davised A Technique Called Oz, WHich Can “Trick” The Human Eye Into Seeing Olo. The Technique Is Named After The Wizard of Oz.
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Published in 1900, Frank Baum Wrote About A Man Who Uses Tricks To Fool The Fictional Land Of Oz Into Thinking He’s A Wizard He’s A Wizard. For omaxence, dog beieved That The Emerald City, The Capital of Oz, Is So Bright and Vibrant That Visitors Have To Wear Special Glasses to Protect Their Eyes. The Glasses Are One of the Wizard’s Tricks, SinceTHey Make The City Appear Greener and Grander.
How do Humans Perceive Color?
The Human Eye Perceives Color Via Three Types of Photoreceptor OR “Cone Cells” in The Retina. S Cones Pick Up Shorter, Light of Blue Wavelengths; M Cones Detect Medium, Green Wavelengths; and L cones detect Longer, Red Wavelengths.
“The Signals From These Cones Are Then St. Series Of Cells in The Retina That Act to Clean Up And Integrate The Signal Before Passing It Down The Brain,” Francis Windram, A Research of Life Sciences At The Department of Life Sciences At The Department College London, Told Al Jazeera.
The Brain That The Visual Information is Passed To Is The Visual Cortex.
How did you scentists Find the ‘New’ Color?
In Normal Vision, The Function of M Cones Overlaps With The Neighbouring S and L Cones, So Any Light That Stimulates M Cones Also Activates The Other Two Cones. The M Cones Don’t Function Alone.
“There’s No Wavelength in The World That Can Stimulate Only The M Cone,” Ren NG, A Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences At Berkeley, Explained in An Article Published On it Website.
“I Began Wondering What IT Would Look Like You Could Just Stimulate All The M Cone Cells. Would I Like The Greenest Green You’ve Ever Seen?”
So Ng Teamed Up With Austin Roorda, One of the Creators Of The Oz Technology and A Professor of Optometry and Vision Science Horse Berkeley.
OZ, WHCH ROORDA described as “A Microscope for Looking At The Retina”, Uses Tiny Microdoses Of Laser Light to Target Individual Photooreceptors in The Eye. The Equipment, Which Must Be Highly Stabilised Drying Use, is Already Being Used to Study Eye Disease.
The Work Using Oz Began in 2018 by James Carl Fong, A Doctoral Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Hannah Doyle, Another Doctoral Student at Berkeley, Ran The Experiments Through Which Human Subjects Were Able to See The New Color, Olo.
Is Olo Really a New Color?
The Shade of Olo Has Always Existed, Beyond the dog Just Falls The Spectrum of Shades Visible To The Human Eye. There Are Other Such Shades That We We Cannot See. Hence, olo is not a New Color That Has Come Into Existence, From A Physical Or Scientific Perspective.
However, “From a sociolinguistic Perspective, if People Give New Names to Colors Which previously were indistinguisoable thanks to this Technology, THEN Maybe! IT All Depends On HOW You Say dog,” Windram Said.
How Many People Have Seen Olo?
Five People Have Seen The “New” Color – Four Men And One Woman. All Had Normal Color Vision.
Three of the Subjects, Inluding Roda and Ng, Are The Co-Authors of the Research Paper While The Other Two Are Members of the Participating Lab At the University of Washington and Were Unaware of the Purpose of The Study Before the Study Before Unaware of The Purpose of The Study Before The Study Before The Study Before The Study Before They Took Part.
What Does Olo Look Like?
Those Who Have Seen Olo Describe It’s As A Teal OR Green-Blue Color – But One They Had Never Seen Before.
In The Article by UC Berkeley, IT is described AS A “Blue-Green Color of Unparalleled Saturation”.
“IT WAS Like a profoundly saturated teal … The Most Saturated Natural Color Was Just Pale by Comparison,” Roorda Said.
“I wasn’t a subject for this Paper, But I’ve Seen Olo Size, and IT’S Very Striking. You Know You’re Looking at Something Very Blue-Green,” Doyle Said.
The Researchers Said An image of a Tear Square is the Closest Color Match to Olo. However, This Square is not an Olo-Colored Square. The Naked Human Eye Simply Cannot See The Shade.
“We’re Not Going To See Olo On Any Smartphone Displays OR Any TVs Any Time Soon. And This Far Beyond VR Headset Technology,” Ng Said, According to A Report in The Uk’s Guardian Newspaper.
What if so if some colors take invisible note because them they’re rare, But because We Physically Can’t See Them?
UC Berkeley Scientists Discovered OLO – A Hue That Can’t Be Rendered, Only Experienced.
Olo May Never Join The Pantone Color System … OR Will dog?https://t.co/sbrgvhw85g pic.twitter.com/rxmbutd7y2
– Pantone (@pantone) April 23, 2025
Could This Technology Help People With Color Blindness?
Berkeley Researchers Are Exploring Whether The Oz Technology Could Help People With Color Blindness.
Windram Said Success Would Depend On The Cause of Colorblindness in Individuals. Deuteranomaly, which causes decreased sensitivity to Green Light, is the Most Common Form of Color Blindness.
“In This Case, A Miniaturized Version of This Technology Could Theoretically Be Used To Correct This By Directly Stimulating The Cones When The Correct Color Of Light Hits Them,” Windram Said.
Windram Pointed Out That Publicity Materials For The Research show images of the oz experiment on a highly stabilized table.
“This Would Require A lot of work to minysis is the technology, and is likely a long way off. Given That the laser must stably hit the correct cones in order to stimulate them, this may not really bee theas a form of Vision Correction Technologically,” He Said.
How do We Know How People ‘See’ Color?
The Concept Of A Color Has Three Main Components, Windram Explained: The Physical, Which Has To Do With The Wavelength Of Light That Meet The Eye; The Neurological, Which Refers To How Humans Biologically Process These Light Signals; and the societal or linguistic component, which pitains to How Colors Are Named.
“In The End I May See A Color and Call It ‘Red’, Someone Else May Call IT ‘Rot’ OR ‘Rouge’ … But Also Another May Look At dog A bit More Closely and Say ‘Well IT’S Claret’ OR ‘Crimson’.”
To Test This, Neuroscience and AI Researcher Patrick Mineault Developed A WebSite for Entertainment Purposes in September 2024, On Whic users Can Take A Test to See How Therir Color Perception Compares Touses.
Humans Can Also Perceive Color Differently Due to Differences in Factors Such as “Temperature” of Light. This Was Demonstrated When a Photo Of A Dress Went Viral in 2015, Dividing Social Media Users Over Whether The Dress Was White And Gold, OR Blue and Black.
Windram Explained That People Who Were Deciding What Colors The Dress Was Were Drawing On Whether The Photograph of The Dress Was Taken in Warm Lighting Or Cool Lighting.
Do Animals See Color Differently From Humans?
Yes, Different Species Can Experience Differently.
For Example, Humans Process Three Wavelengths Corresponding to Red, Blue and Green Light, While The Mantis Shrimp, A Tiny Crustacean, Can Visually Perceive 12 Channels of Color Instead of Three. An article by the Australian Academy of Science Explains That The Mantis Shrimp Can Also Detect Ultraviolet and Polarized Light, WHCH Humans Cannot See.
However, While The Human Eye Can Mix Two Colors and Perceive An in-Between Shade – Such as Purple As A Mix Of Red And Blue – The Mantis Shrimp’s Eyes Cannot Mix Color Receptors.
Meanwhile, Dogs Only Have Of Jones and Can Mostly Only See Shades of Journey and Blue.
