Traditionally it has been the common consensus that there are only 3 primary colours and the many combinations thereof.
However recently it has been reported that people have been spotting a new palette of colours based on a 4th primary colour.
“This has of course shifted the entire paradigm of visual science. We won’t be hearing the end of it. All I’m saying is that I’ll be getting an earfull about it.” Remarked Van Gogh
The internet has exploded about what people call “bleen”. The actual colour is hard to describe since it is impossible to capture on camera and there is no way of constructing this colour using the other 3 primary colours, or any of the other colours out of the entire ral standardised colour chart. Bleen does however, mix well with any other colour, resulting in many amazing and rich displays of artistic beauty.
“Bleen makes me want to buy things” said one witness.
“Bleen turns me on,…and also want to buy things, I have money to spend on bleen you know.” Said another.
“I can’t wait to scroll my phone some more until I read about turnips.” Said a particularly enthousiastic witness.
For more colourfull news in this particular field of science stay tuned.
Source: many people say that they have tremendous colours.
This makes me really wish I wasn’t colorblind, but I don’t even see color because I’m not racist.
But are you color bleened? It’s a real condition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_bleened
Holy shit. It’s telling me no article with that name exists. I can’t see it! I really must be color bleened.
Well, as a matter of fact, the 3 types of conecells perceive 2 axes of opposing colors, and the brain interprets the rest. So you could say there are 4 primary colors.
Yes, there are four primary colors. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Other.
Every time I see bleen, I just cannot stop looking at it! It’s such a mesmerizing colour!
Law enforcement and other authorities are alarmed by the discovery, fearing that citizens or even worse, non-citizens, may take advantage of the new color to maintain their privacy while going about their daily activities. Since bleen cannot be photographed by cameras or represented digitally, people can foil the latest facial recognition technology by applying bleen-colored makeup or wearing bleen-tinted glasses. Protestors could also use bleen paint to make anti-government signs which can be read with the naked eye but not filmed or photographed, which could make them harder to prosecute.
These and other bleen-themed products are already being sold in niche markets online, and the bleen product industry is expected expand rapidly, reaching annual sales in the ten to twenty million dollar range by the second quarter of 2027. “We already have the infrastructure in place to produce glasses, clothing, window tinting, et cetera,” said one online retailer, who wished to remain anonymous. “The only thing limiting us for now is supply of the bleen dye itself, but it shouldn’t take long to ramp up production.”
Dick Small, CEO of WeCU Security, which surveils and tracks customers for retail businesses, said he is concerned about how quickly their equipment can be upgraded to deal with bleen. “It’s an ongoing technological battle between surveillance and privacy. Frankly, right now I don’t know how we’re going to solve this one.”
I’ve heard talk of incorporating the color bleen into the rainbow flag used for Pride, since it’s a color we somehow missed.
I’m order to allow representations of the new colour on computers, it is now RGB🅱️. Hex codes are the same length, but go up to H in order to accommodate the new colour, e.g. #12FFGH.
Graphics experts are currently working on colorsv6, which will allow a 128-bit color space. This will allow for over one undecillion colors, theoretically allowing each object in the known universe to have its own unique color.
Common colors will be represented as follows:
000000:000000:000000:000000:00000000 - black (fully transparent) 000000:000000:000000:000000:ffffffff - black ffffff:000000:000000:000000:ffffffff - red 000000:ffffff:000000:000000:ffffffff - green 000000:000000:ffffff:000000:ffffffff - blue 000000:000000:000000:ffffff:ffffffff - bleen ffffff:ffffff:ffffff:ffffff:ffffffff - whiteEach color channel gets a full 24 bits of accuracy, except for the alpha channel, which gets 32 bits to better facilitate hiding almost imperceptible text in images to troll AI models.
colorsv6 will also include stateless color autodiscovery and ColorSec for secure coloration.
Several manufacturers of image editing software have already announced that due to color space exhaustion they will exclusively support colorsv6 going forward. However, so-called “dual stack coloration” may be offered, which will map colorsv6 to traditional colors in a way where most people won’t notice the difference but which will regularly infuriate actual artists and graphic designers.
When I see Bleen I think about how love is real, and rock and roll too.
Joke’s on you. Look up Tetrachromates.
Joke?
You mean to tell me humans are evolving again? This is huge news!
No joke. Plain science. Some see more colors than other. And this is not like Vincent van Gogh, who was able to see UV light with one eye. Tetrachromates have four instead three color receptors.
You are thinking of Monet, who had one of his lenses removed for a cataract surgery.
You are right. Gogh was the one with Xanthopsia.
Nope, turns out he just liked yellow.
