Super colour vision : 100 million colours

[millirad]

2 to 3 percent of women may have 4 colour receptors and see many more colours than anyone with regular colour vision............

Some women may see 100 million colors, thanks to their genes

 

[Gryphon]

Thats pretty neat how a cone that can sense orange would add so much more sensitivity to your vision.

 

[Dr_Evil]

I saw something about that a while back. What I'd like to know is how much of a difference it makes. I don't think it could make too much of a difference since it is hard to tell the difference between some colors already.

Post number 632! Bring on the HeNe.

 

[Cyparagon]

I call Bullsht. I'd like to see someone distinguish a mere 100 thousand colors. Have you seen that color test where you order the swatches? Very few colors there compared with 100 million, but most people can't do it anyway.

 

[HIMNL9]

Better way for see if you can distinguish them is to get (or print) a Pantone set, and check if you can see the differences between two adjacent boxes (they're "only" 16 millions colors )

EDIT: just as example

THIS IS PART OF PANTONE SET ..... each of the previous letters have a different graduation of Pantone scale from one page set (each LETTER, not each word), so if you can see the difference between two adjacent letters, then you can clearly see all the 16 millions colors as different colors

 

[millirad]

Well, one thing that they would be unable to do is see more than 16,777,215 different colours on a computer monitor.

 

[Things]

THIS IS PART OF PANTONE SET

I can see the colour gradient over the whole thing, but not each individual letter

 

[millirad]

^Yes, that's about the extent of my abilities as well. More red-pink to the left and more orange-pink to the right. I wouldn't be able to catch the shift with a single letter consecutively.

 

[HIMNL9]

I can see the colour gradient over the whole thing, but not each individual letter

This i was meaning ..... our eyes are great machines, but they have not enough color resolution for see all the 16 millions colors as separate colors, only the difference from a certain graduations, and only differences in some steps, usually 5 or 10 Patone steps .....

5 steps for each letter, from 3 different pages:

MMMMMMMM - MMMMMMMM - MMMMMMMM

10 steps for each letter, from 3 different pages:

MMMMMMMM - MMMMMMMM - MMMMMMMM

Someone, very sensitive, and only for some types of colors (cause some colors tend to "flatten" the differences more than others), can see single differences, but usually only if you place the 2 samples one near the other, and if these samples have a decent extension, say, 50x50mm squares of solid color ..... and those peoples are very rare.