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Posted by inigyou 6 days ago

Olo (Color)(en.wikipedia.org)
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zahlman 11 hours ago|
> Olo was discovered on April 18, 2025 by scientists at UC Berkeley.[1][3] The color is named after its theoretical LMS color space coordinates (0, 1, 0), which spells "olo" in leet speak.[4][3]

I presume "loo" and "ool" are in-gamut? What hex values?

amoshebb 7 hours ago|
703 nm laser is almost “loo”, and 417 nm is almost “ool”. Searching those wavelengths gives me #FF0000 and #6400FF. Loo is all red and ool is all violet.
xpct 9 hours ago||
Since colors are an activation of rods and cones, could we simulate them by stimulating the eye nerves directly? Not necessarily to see new colors, but to replicate the experience of sight? If we managed that, wouldn't it feel exactly the same as seeing something in nature that itches the back of the eye so nicely? I suppose this is entering the brain interface territory.
purplethreads 14 hours ago||
> The color is named after its theoretical LMS color space coordinates (0, 1, 0), which spells "olo" in leet speak.

:)

Hm, so is it correct to also call it ultragreen? In the same way that ultraviolet is the same effect but for short waves?

In this regard, it can’t be that novel of a discovery.

riffraff 14 hours ago||
Ultraviolet is prnamed that because of the Latin meaning of ultra as "beyond", as it's "beyond violet" in the spectrum, same as infrared is "below red".

This would be "sideways green" perhaps :)

evanb 12 hours ago||
This page, which predates the recent olo work, calls it psychedelic aquamarine. https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/primary.html
semolino 18 hours ago||
Having read this comment from today detailing variance in the default Windows 95 background (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329282), I'm imagining Olo would be your wallpaper if "257 colors" could be supported.
m-hodges 18 hours ago||
Brown

https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU

agiacalone 7 hours ago||
So weird. #00FFCC has been my terminal font color for nearly two decades now. Love the color and had no idea about the ‘imaginary’ color Olo.
throwaway27448 16 hours ago||
This is how people talk about how ancient greeks viewed blue, except we actually can't see this color normally.
MarkusQ 16 hours ago||
The stuff about ancient Greeks not seeing blue is absolute internet balderdash.
gherkinnn 14 hours ago||
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-english-colour...

> It’s not that people in the past couldn’t see blue. Indeed, there were several words which could refer to things we would call blue today, but these words could also describe things we’d assign to other colours too, especially grey and green.

dylan604 17 hours ago||
"They then used lasers to deliver tiny doses of light"

I didn't know there was funding for this

tantalor 17 hours ago|
> Funding: This work was supported by a Hellman Fellowship (R.N.), FHL Vive Center Seed Grant (R.N.), Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant FA9550-20-1-0195 (J.F., C.W., W.S.T., A.R., and R.N.), Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant FA9550-21-1-0230 (J.F., H.K.D., C.W., A.E.B., S.R.H., V.P.P., W.S.T., R.S., A.R., and R.N.), National Institutes of Health grant R01EY023591 (A.E.B., B.P.S., P.T., J.E.V., W.S.T., A.R., and R.N.), National Institutes of Health grant R01EY029710 (V.P.P. and R.S.), National Institutes of Health grant U01EY032055 (V.P.P., R.S., and A.R.), and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (R.S.).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12007580/

amberjack 18 hours ago||
I wonder how long it will take until this is some kind of an amusement park thing or whatever.
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