Project GutenbergApr 28

Researchers Say They’ve Discovered “Unprecedented” New Color No One Has Ever Seen Before

By Regina Sienra

https://mymodernmet.com/new-color-olo-blue-green/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=04272025&utm_medium=email&sh_kit=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

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

Goethe's Theory of Colours at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50572

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Researchers Say They’ve Discovered “Unprecedented” New Color No One Has Ever Seen Before

“We predicted from the beginning that it would look like an unprecedented color signal but we didn’t know what the brain would do with it.”

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@gutenberg_org have we finally discovered 'Octrine' from Discworld? #TerryPrachett
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Project GutenbergApr 28

Researchers Say They’ve Discovered “Unprecedented” New Color No One Has Ever Seen Before

By Regina Sienra

https://mymodernmet.com/new-color-olo-blue-green/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=04272025&utm_medium=email&sh_kit=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

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

Goethe's Theory of Colours at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50572

#art #science

Show threadProject GutenbergApr 28

Newton's Rainbow

In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.

https://library.si.edu/exhibition/color-in-a-new-light/science

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504

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The Science of Color

Show threadBjørnar (he/him)Apr 28
@gutenberg_org To be a little pedantic: he discovered visible light was made up of a spectrum of color and somewhat arbitrarily decided to split that continuum in seven.
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@gutenberg_org have we finally discovered 'Octrine' from Discworld? #TerryPrachett
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@gutenberg_org (Y)OLO!
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@DamonWakes don't shine laser into your remaining eaye... @gutenberg_org
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Sure wish I was a team of scientists with nothing better to do.