Olo (Color)

(en.wikipedia.org)

117 points | by inigyou 5 days ago

12 comments

  • GolfPopper 1 hour ago
    It is possible to see something close (how close I don't know) by saturating the S & M cones instead of avoiding them. Wikipedia refers to these as 'chimerical colors':

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...

  • hdz 47 minutes ago
    The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...
  • m-hodges 2 minutes ago
  • drayfield 1 hour ago
    Is it too late to rename it to Octarine?

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octarine

    • phikappa 1 hour ago
      In my headcanon octarine is a colour between orange and deep purple. Sometimes it has a hazy blackish halo.
      • indrora 1 hour ago
        I've always taken it to be that the color is unique to the situation/viewer -- a sort of pearlescent void-color that can't be described in any known language, but which just Is. More a physical phenomenon than an actual color, but distinctly hued somehow.
    • Razengan 22 minutes ago
      My thoughts as soon as I saw the title :)
    • ChrisMarshallNY 1 hour ago
      +1 for the Sir Terry reference.

      I suspect many animals experience color quite differently, including seeing infrared/ultraviolet, etc.

      • tiagod 8 minutes ago
        No suspicion needed, that's a very well studied fact.
  • semolino 49 minutes ago
    Having read this comment from today detailing variance in the default Windows 95 background (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329282), I'm imagining Olo would be your wallpaper if "257 colors" could be supported.
  • amberjack 12 minutes ago
    I wonder how long it will take until this is some kind of an amusement park thing or whatever.
  • kveykva 1 hour ago
    This reads like an SCP article
    • Luc 54 minutes ago
      Ah, thank you. Couldn’t put my finger on it.
  • gste 31 minutes ago
    > Only the five subjects of the Berkeley experiment have officially seen olo.

    Basically equivalent to

    source: trust me bro

    • IAmBroom 10 minutes ago
      The word "officially" is the massive wiggle-word here.

      Only one person on Earth has officially seen the color of my coffee mug. Send me Venmo for $10, and I'll officiate your viewing of the attached JPG....

      • SamBam 3 minutes ago
        Except that this requires extremely specialized equipment to individually trigger specific cone cells in your eyes, so I expect they have a pretty damn good idea of who has seen this and who hasn't.
  • goosethe 1 hour ago
    how bout Grorange
  • timonoko 14 minutes ago
    What? Me must be only one who discovered this color when I got a color terminal maybe 1988.

    I was trying to find the color between red and violet, then I discovered that exact opposite is very weird.

    Try 0xFF0030 and invert it.

    • SamBam 2 minutes ago
      You can't have discovered this same color, solve it requires specialized equipment to see it.

      The color in the Wikipedia article is just a rough approximation.

  • dorianmariecom 1 hour ago
    lol
    • trembolram 54 minutes ago
      lol is the complementary color of olo in the theoretical lms color space.
    • ihaveajob 55 minutes ago
      No, that's a different color.