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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Darn. I can’t read article.
The flowers are fuscia. Magenta is a tad darker.
[[Can she see the colors of the wind?]]
Depends o n what city she is in
hmm got every one of them except hte last one on the first test-
LOL- how many did you see?
If in Lubbock, Texas it would be a dusty, brown hue in the Spring.
I work with color and several years ago found myself frequently going outside to look at my work in sunlight in order to check the color. Then I had a cataract removed. It was remarkable the color change. In the “new” eye everything was bluer and whiter (blue is part of white) I have yet to have the second one removed. I can tell that it puts a yellow tint on everything, so now instead of going outside, I close one eye.
Concetta Antico Fine Art
“[[Can she see the colors of the wind?]]
Depends on what city she is in”
Go to Chicago (the Windy City) and look in any blowhard politician’s mouth to see a rainbow of gasbag hues.
Very pretty pic - delicate, sort of Japanese print style.
My wife appears to have that. We see colors very differently.
The invisible dog.
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Which one?
It’s said that LSD will help you see colors that don’t exist.
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I think I have been able to see slightly different hues in some colors that my husband can’t (though he is not colorblind), even before I had cataract surgery. It’s more pronounced now that the cataracts have been removed. I had both eyes done, and multifocal lenses implanted after the cataract removal. Vision and color are both better.
Obviously whatever she wants, since nobody can disagree with her.
Easy there! I’m sure a woman has a name for every color. Ever seen one of those bundles of paint colors? That merely scratches the surface. ;-D
Okay.
So the spots in the center of this lavender azalea are
fuscia also also, in your opinion? Or are they magenta?
(My Dad grew this type also.)
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