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Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors

Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors

Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors

Three cone types let most people tell apart roughly a million color shades; rare tetrachromats may parse even finer differences.

The brain blends receptor signals into the hues we name — culture and language then carve the spectrum into words.

Color is computation, not paint on the world. The same wavelength can mean different stories in different minds.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors