Hacker News with Generative AI: Color

Red, pink or white, all roses were once yellow says genomic analysis (phys.org)
Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing Forestry University, China.
Genetics, Botany, Research, Science, Color
6 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 0 comments
Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before (theguardian.com)
After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has seen before.
Science, Color, Human Perception
46 points by donatj 7 days ago | 25 comments
New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It (scientificamerican.com)
There are only so many colors that the typical human eye can see; estimates put the number just below 10 million. But now, for the first time, scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar spectrum and into a new world of color.
Science, Human Perception, Color
29 points by CharlesW 7 days ago | 2 comments
Chromophobia (press.uchicago.edu)
The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought.
Color, Western Culture, Philosophy, Intellectual History
6 points by handfuloflight 24 days ago | 0 comments
HDMI Musings: YCbCr color subsampling, Dolby Vision MEL/FEL, and and5V injection (blogspot.com)
Hey folks, for this post, I thought it would be good to dive a little more into the world of AV technologies after discussing the nVidia Shield TV Pro last week.
HDMI, Video, Technology, Color, Dolby Vision
39 points by colinprince 30 days ago | 8 comments
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with the M4 chip and a sky blue color (apple.com)
Apple today announced the new MacBook Air, featuring the blazing-fast performance of the M4 chip, up to 18 hours of battery life,1 a new 12MP Center Stage camera, and a lower starting price.
Apple Products, Laptops, Hardware, Technology, Color
12 points by meetpateltech 52 days ago | 0 comments
The Ancient Art of Color (worldhistory.substack.com)
Pliny the Elder wasn’t all that impressed. He acknowledged the significance and symbolism of the stuff:
History, Art, Color
35 points by crescit_eundo 55 days ago | 6 comments
Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024) (evilmartians.com)
The new CSS Color 4 specification has added the new oklch() notation for declaring colors. In this post, we explain why this is important for design systems and color palettes.
CSS, Color, Web Development, Design Systems
78 points by rob 68 days ago | 30 comments
Show HN: My terminal learned a new trick (Colors in Zig) (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
Color Show is a Zig utility that renders solid-color rectangles directly in the terminal using the Kitty graphics protocol. Simply pass hexadecimal color codes as command-line arguments to display vibrant color blocks.
Programming, Terminal Emulators, Color, Zig
10 points by cat-whisperer 122 days ago | 1 comments
Brazilian velvet ant is ultrablack (nytimes.com)
Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.
Science, Biology, Animals, Color, Nature
41 points by bookofjoe 122 days ago | 26 comments
'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost (aljazeera.com)
A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries.
Art, History, Mexico, Color, Ancient Civilizations
5 points by mooreds 145 days ago | 1 comments
Mushroom Color Atlas (mushroomcoloratlas.com)
Explore the chromatic universe of fungi through the spectrum of colors naturally produced by dye mushrooms.
Mushrooms, Fungi, Color, Art, Science
339 points by gaws 170 days ago | 30 comments
Colors in Japan (nandakke.jp)
Japan, Culture, Color
6 points by thecosas 267 days ago | 2 comments
Polychromatic Pixels (compoundsemiconductor.net)
Polychromatics, Semiconductor, Color
203 points by bluehat974 282 days ago | 142 comments
All-in-one polychromatic LEDs replace RGB for sharper screens (newatlas.com)
Displays, Technology, LED Lighting, Color, Innovation
12 points by mulle_nat 308 days ago | 2 comments
RAL Color Standard (wikipedia.org)
Color, Standards, Wikipedia
48 points by elsewhen 346 days ago | 39 comments