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Olo (Color)

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Re: Olo (Color)

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The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...

Lol $11280.99 now marked down to $33.99!

Re: Olo (Color)

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post #16

The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...

Obligatory “Fuck Anish Kapoor”

https://www.reddit.com/r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR/comments/1dxlt6...

Re: Olo (Color)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Goddammit. Now I remembered how you see this color. You stare the some shape of 0xFF0030 and then close yores eyes and the inverted color appears.

You stare the some shape of 0xFF0030 and then close yores eyes and the inverted color appears.

So, the cover of R.E.M.'s 1988 record titled Green, which is actually orange. You're supposed to stare at it, then close your eyes, and you see the album cover as it's intended to be viewed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_(R.E.M._album)

Re: Olo (Color)

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post #16

The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...

They also make the orangiest orange paint, the yellowest yellow, the pinkest pink, etc. At a certain point I have to wonder how much these are accurate descriptors of the paint colors vs arbitrary made up marketing nonsense.

Re: Olo (Color)

#48

It is possible to see something close (how close I don't know) by saturating the S & M cones instead of avoiding them. Wikipedia refers to these as 'chimerical colors': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...

Demonstration of this: https://dynomight.net/colors/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808 )

incredible

Re: Olo (Color)

#49

It is possible to see something close (how close I don't know) by saturating the S & M cones instead of avoiding them. Wikipedia refers to these as 'chimerical colors': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...

Demonstration of this: https://dynomight.net/colors/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808 )

Wow, mind /eye blowing! Very insightful, thank you!

Re: Olo (Color)

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Reminds me a bit of a Greg Egan story from Instantiation called Seventh Sight. Kids with artificial eyes hack them to see colors and spectrum not perceptible by humans.
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