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  • ‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours

    01/30/2022 6:51:34 PM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 91 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 29 Jan 2022 | Bronwyn Adcock
    “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...