Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Perception

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
Hue new? 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 Perception, Human Perception
19 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 7 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
Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser (nature.com)
Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking technology to selectively activate certain cells in their retinas.
Science, Vision, Human Perception, Color Theory
8 points by gnabgib 8 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game (vidzert.com)
Games, Vision, Color Vision, Human Perception
31 points by vidzert 83 days ago | 41 comments
Perceived Age (suryad.com)
Perceived Age, Psychology, Human Perception
90 points by sdan 260 days ago | 26 comments
Bouba/kiki effect (wikipedia.org)
Cognitive Science, Psychology, Human Perception
257 points by cscurmudgeon 314 days ago | 170 comments
Phone cameras can take in more light than the human eye (theconversation.com)
Photography, Optics, Human Perception
39 points by rntn 332 days ago | 64 comments
The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams (rongarret.info)
Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Perception
72 points by lisper 361 days ago | 179 comments