“There’s no light in nature that can only stimulate the M-cones,” said Austin Roorda, a professor of optometry and vision science at the School of Optometry at Berkeley.
Roorda explained that the human eye has long, middle and short wavelength-sensitive cones called L, M and S cones. The M cones are sandwiched between the L and the S cones, so when the M cone is tickled, so are the L and the S.
The study involved a team of researchers, including Ren Ng, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley. Their collaboration began years ago when Ng asked Roorda, “What would happen if we delivered light to thousands of M cones only? Would it be the greenest green you’ve ever seen?”
So it’s essentially isolated green or “pure” green.
I seem to remember reading it’s so named because only the “G” in the (roughly) RGB cones are stimulated, so a 0-1-0 mapping onto the R-G-B colour space. 0-1-0 > olo.
So it’s essentially isolated green or “pure” green.
It’s not easy seeing green.
So olo because it’s the middle of color?
Another name for it is “olou”
Get this man a MacArthur Genius Grant immediately
I seem to remember reading it’s so named because only the “G” in the (roughly) RGB cones are stimulated, so a 0-1-0 mapping onto the R-G-B colour space. 0-1-0 > olo.
Has the same thing been done for the L and S cones? I mean, the isolated “tickling”?
I’m curious as well, for all we know we don’t know what pure red looks like either.
As far as i understand, it’s easier to be on either end of the spectrum, so there are already colors that do that in nature.