Posted on 01/30/2022 6:51:34 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“It’s not just an affectation and it’s not artistic licence,” says Antico. “I’m actually painting exactly what I see. If it’s a pink flower and then all of a sudden you see a bit of lilac or blue, I actually saw that.”
Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people have. While those of us with three of these receptors – called cone cells – have the ability to distinguish around one million different colours, tetrachromats see an estimated 100 million.
According to Dr Kimberly Jameson, a University of California scientist who has studied Antico, just having the gene – which around 15% of women have – is not alone sufficient to be a tetrachromat, but it’s a necessary condition. “In Concetta’s case … one thing we believe is that because she’s been painting sort of continuously since the age of seven years old, she has really enlisted this extra potential and used it. This is how genetics works: it gives you the potential to do things and if the environment demands that you do that thing, then the genes kick in.”
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Women generally CAN discern colors better than men. Have you ever been utterly bewildered by your wife at a paint store?
I’ve done those online tests where you count the numbers of different colors you can see on the test spectrum and come up with a crazy amount.
I can also tell you what scene in nature will make a good infrared photo or not.
I also see a “glow”, for the lack of a better word, in dormant trees before they put out leaf buds in the spring weeks before they actually do.
I’ve tried to get others to see that but they don’t.
A useless talent in my own weird reality.
Not to me...Magenta is darker...imho
Hardly anyone would see the extra colors she paints? 🤪
= = =
You should see how many tubes of paint she has.
The Color Out Of Space?
—”What say ye?”
Magenta doesn’t exist because it has no wavelength; there’s no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn’t like having green (magenta’s complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing.
Same as “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
Only different.
Looks pink to me.🤔
If she paints colors that only she can see, then who will appreciate them?
—”Almost as many colors as genders.”
NO WAY!
Near as I can determine the gender BS goes on forever.
I suspect there is only a finite number of possible frequencies on the visible spectrum?
And even the fashion industry would run out of names for that many colors.
If a color is not named, does it exist?
—”Do You Have SUPER Color Vision?”
A very nice find!
Thanx
>The invisible dog.
What dog?
ROYGBIV+
Fungi love salamanders, especially red bellied ones.
—”Thanks for the Blood Sweat & Tears earworm there. :P”
THANK YOU!
Soon as I went to post the article, I recalled the line.
But not the source, a search of song lyrics... I even ask my wife; she knowns all.
I’ve been severely hearing since RVN, so I knew it was not anything recent.
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel (Audio)
https://youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU
Imagine living in a world where blue and yellow don't make green, but a completely different color.
—”Birds are tetrachromats. They see UV light.”
After you mentioned it, I recalled bees also.
and more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
I see blue and yellow polarized light. Caught crap for it when I was a kid, too. I learned not to talk about it until later in life.
—”makes me wonder if tetrachromatism can be a temporary condition to the average person. “
See reply number 6.
I would not be recommending any pharmaceuticals.
That said I did have some hallucinations with plain old sensory deprivation.
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