From: quadibloc@ca.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:10:16 -0500, Tony Nance wrote:   
      
   > In this newsgroup, in this thread, somebody should mention "octarine".   
   >   
   > So I am.   
      
   Also, it might be relevant to mention that there are women who walk among   
   us who see a whole different and vaster universe of color than everyone   
   else. That's because the genes for the pigments in the cones of the eye   
   are on the X chromosome, so a woman one of whose parents is an anomalous   
   trichromat (a kind of color blindness) could have the three normal cone   
   pigments plus the anomalous pigment in a fourth kind of cone.   
      
   John Savard   
      
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