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New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It(scientificamerican.com)
28 points by CharlesW 2 days ago | 2 comments
_aavaa_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

This is very cool. Give it another few decades and this could be how our next displays work, Snow Crash style.

Next experiment idea: simultaneously send different lasers to each cone.

orbital-decay a day ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052

Pretty neat. tl;dr: they produce impossible colors by selectively activating one specific type of photoreceptors in the eye with a laser. Which is normally impossible as there's significant overlap in spectral response in different types of cones. They map the retina in a pretty elaborate way and send the pulse to M-cones only, driving it with a FPGA to achieve real-time performance.