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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

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

36•radeeyate•2h ago

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K0balt•1h ago

What is meant by population scale in this context?

turnsout•1h ago

It’s jargon for “a lot of cones.” 10^3 to be specific.

K0balt•1h ago

Cool, thanks. I skimmed the article on how to introduce new colors to entire populations, that seemed like a really promising capability! lol.

throwanem•1h ago

Very Snow Crash, maybe. If I recall, the cyberdecks in that story used lasers to draw on the user's retinas, rather than an HMD.

jonas21•1h ago

> Five subjects were recruited for this experiment ... Subjects 10001R, 10003L, and 20205R are coauthors on the paper and were blinded to the test conditions but were aware of the purposes of the study. The other two subjects were members of the participating lab at the University of Washington but were naive to the purposes of the study.

Is it normal for the authors to experiment on themselves and their colleagues like this? Or did they not like the idea of laser-stimulating the photoreceptors of random strangers?

pvg•56m ago

That is the tradition.

I tooke a bodkin gh & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as neare to the Backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye with the end of it (soe as to make the curvature a, bcdef in my eye) there appeared severall white darke & coloured circles

https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NAT...

sebmellen•42m ago

Wow, I never knew that Newton risked retinal detachment to prove his theories.

gnabgib•34m ago

Not a Neal Stephenson fan then? (The Baroque Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle)

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