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   Stefan Ram to Cryptoengineer   
   Re: Totally OT: See a color you've never   
   18 Feb 26 16:07:01   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Cryptoengineer  wrote or quoted:   
   >Not SF, but this is the nearest thing to The   
   >Color Out of Space I've ever encountered.   
      
     Back in 2025, some UC Berkeley folks managed to make this color called   
     "olo." It's basically a shade no one's ever seen before because it   
     sits outside what we can normally perceive.   
      
     They pulled it off using this thing called "Oz," which kind of hacks   
     your vision by lighting up just the M-cones on their own - that nev-   
     er happens with normal light.   
      
     The people who saw it said it looked like a super intense blue-green,   
     but you had to mix in some white light before it lined up with any   
     normal color. That proved it's actually beyond our built-in color   
     range.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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