In the study, the researchers used an innovative method of visualising colour images to expand the range of human perception. (Image credit: blackdovfx via Getty Images)
Researchers have created a method that allows the human eye to trick and perceive completely new colors that are beyond the range of normal human vision.
Using the technique, the scientists allowed five participants to see a new color, dubbed “olo,” that was described by the subjects as “a blue-green with unprecedented saturation.” Some of the researchers involved in the experiment outlined their methodology and the new color in a paper published Friday (April 18) in the journal Science Advances.
“Our ultimate goal is to provide programmable control over each photoreceptor [light-sensitive cell] in the retina,” said James Fong, a co-author of the study and a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. “While this has not yet been achieved at this level, the method we describe in the current study demonstrates that many of the key principles can be implemented in practice,” Fong added in an email to Live Science.
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