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Love this - references one of my favorite ever optical experiences Eclipse of Titan

https://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ipage-et.html

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BTW olo was not discovered in 2025

In ~2016 on the chan someone posted a completely unhinged post about this "bleen" "grue" color that nobody could see. it's probably lost to the ages now, but I remember it.

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Are you sure that wasn't referencing "grue" from this philosophical thought experiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
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The fun part is the big red dot on the green background animation. Even before clicking it, as my eyes dart across it, small dark blue/black electric arc like shapes manifest all around the edges of the circle either reaching to the edge of the square or curving back to the circle like solar flares. I am red-green colorblind too.
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I'm color blind. I do see a somewhat different, brighter color, but it isn't particularly different from normal colors. That's just me (and my fellow aberrants)?
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These demos really drive home the chemical / biological part of visual perception to me. As I perceive these strange new colors I can almost feel the chemical processes occurring in my cones.
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This is heroin for the eyes. Once the hit is over you want to take another one and if you don't it'll take ten minutes or so until the "real" world won't feel like a bleached sepia picture any more.
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I saw the blue rim, but I didn't notice much effect on how the real world looked like after. But then, I'm red-green colourblind.
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tbf it's more like methylamine + P2P meth for the eyes
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Wow, mind /eye blowing! Very insightful, thank you!
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weird shit that happen kinda happen to me a lot. i felt always that maybe my brain was malfunctioning.

i still kinda do, because it just happen at random when i am outside. sometimes, usually in bright morning light, sunny morning. no i dont look at the sun, yes mostly its visible looking at the blue of the sky.

last time i had it while in 1 on 1 with my manager. it took a lot of struggle not to try and rub my eye or tell her i was seeing this weird rainbow snake floating around.

overloaded cones, hopefully thats not some indication of something bad but just 'tired eyes'.

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>this weird rainbow snake floating around.

Sounds like it might have been a 'floater':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

(I've had one myself for my whole life, a 'crystal worm'. I usually don't notice it, fortunately, but once it a while it will noticeably drift into my field of view while looking at a bright, blank field - like the blue sky or a monochrome computer screen.)

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Is it perhaps a scintillating scotoma? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
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If you are a migraineur, you will discover these being the purest of the pure of red, green and blue you will ever see.
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yer a wizard
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wow, highly recommended
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This was very interesting, thank you for the link.
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incredible
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