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Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by timonoko » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

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Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by amberjack » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

I wonder how long it will take until this is some kind of an amusement park thing or whatever.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by IAmBroom » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

gste wrote: post #18

> Only the five subjects of the Berkeley experiment have officially seen olo. Basically equivalent to source: trust me bro

The word "officially" is the massive wiggle-word here.

Only one person on Earth has officially seen the color of my coffee mug. Send me Venmo for $10, and I'll officiate your viewing of the attached JPG....

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by tiagod » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #3

drayfield wrote: post #2

Is it too late to rename it to Octarine? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octarine

+1 for the Sir Terry reference. I suspect many animals experience color quite differently, including seeing infrared/ultraviolet, etc.

No suspicion needed, that's a very well studied fact.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by SamBam » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

IAmBroom wrote: post #23

gste wrote: post #18

> Only the five subjects of the Berkeley experiment have officially seen olo. Basically equivalent to source: trust me bro

The word "officially" is the massive wiggle-word here. Only one person on Earth has officially seen the color of my coffee mug. Send me Venmo for $10, and I'll officiate your viewing of the attached JPG....

Except that this requires extremely specialized equipment to individually trigger specific cone cells in your eyes, so I expect they have a pretty damn good idea of who has seen this and who hasn't.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by dejobaan » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

indrora wrote: post #8

phikappa wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my headcanon octarine is a colour between orange and deep purple. Sometimes it has a hazy blackish halo.

I've always taken it to be that the color is unique to the situation/viewer -- a sort of pearlescent void-color that can't be described in any known language, but which just Is. More a physical phenomenon than an actual color, but distinctly hued somehow.

I always thought it was something like https://www.moodlight.org/ (set to 60 colors/second) or https://flashing-colors.com/ (set to 100 colors/second).

Note that those are possibly photosensitive epilepsy risks if you turn them up to 60/100.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by m-hodges » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Brown

https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by SamBam » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

timonoko wrote: post #21

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You can't have discovered this same color, solve it requires specialized equipment to see it.

The color in the Wikipedia article is just a rough approximation.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by pixel_popping » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

Time for a trip then.

Re: Olo (Color)

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Post by orthoxerox » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

gste wrote: post #18

> Only the five subjects of the Berkeley experiment have officially seen olo. Basically equivalent to source: trust me bro

There's a link to Dynomight's webpage in another comment thread. I've seen olo myself with it. It's to cyan what ultramarine is to sRGB blue.