I rather fancy the peacock and I like what she’s done with color in many of the other paintings I could find online. I wonder if my own chromatic abilities play into it. I’ve always scored well on the color tests. The one @navarro linked took me less than 2 min. I’ve also often been in the position of insisting to my nest partner that no, those two colors are not identical.
So scientist has studied her, presumably giving her several tests, genetic test shows she has mutation, and we know for certs color blindness exists. But she’s still lying?
Having read most of this, color me confused! She could really make good use of the tired old phrase of “try to see it my way” Does she have names for these other colors I wonder. Sometimes we can refer to a color as being related to or in between certain colors. Can she use descriptors to give us a sense of her other colors? What does any of this mean to Prisms? Are her colors on past the ends of what we think we see presented through a prism. Can she identify objects in nature that she sees in her colors? I love all this possibility and how it might be affecting us without our knowing it. Wild Shit. I’ll bet she has a real adventure when she takes a hit of acid with all these extra dimensions of color to play in.
“Green with the fourth cone-type un-stimulated” will be different from “green with the fourth cone-type stimulated,” but to the rest of us they both just look green
In order for there to be names for all these extra colors, a bunch of tetrachromats would have to talk to each other about color often enough to develop their own vocabulary—but the names would mean nothing to the rest of us
What the rest of us see vs. what she sees.
This seems like a pretty scientifically-grounded discussion of tetrachromacy: Tetrachromats Don't Have Superpowers - YouTube
There-in lies the beauty and fun of such extra sensory perceptions, if you see what I mean. But then again, could you really see it my way. Ha! I love it.
Yeah, this is a “tell me you didn’t bother to click the link I posted, without telling me you didn’t bother” moment. The research is out there…but apparently there’s a mutation that prevents some folks from reading it.
If I’m asked to prove that, at least the rest of us can read what they wrote, right? 
I love these sort of stories. I’ve always been fascinated with the question: “Do you perceive “Red” the same way I do?”
Tetrachromacy tells us that not all of us perceive colors the same way, and that we’ll never really see color the same way, but I often wonder how much is genetics, how much is experience, and how much is language.
My dad will often conflate blue and green, calling something blue when, to me, it is clearly in the green range. Is it because he lacks the visual apparatus to see subtle shades of green? Is it because he’s never been interested in art, never really mixed paint to create colors, and so never experienced color in all its glorious variations? Or is it because he never developed or needed to develop vocabulary that differentiated forest green from hunter green from shamrock green?
Since I can’t get into his brain, I can never truly know. Similarly, I can never truly perceive the world as Ms. Antico does because I don’t have the genetic equipment to do so. She can paint the most color accurate picture ever of how she sees the world, but as @johnnyFresh notes, all the extra pigments would look the same to me, because I couldn’t perceive their differences.
Just a little reminder to myself that there is so much to the universe just beyond my perception waiting to be discovered!
That was about as difficult as putting numbered blocks into numerical order even though I am (neurologically) almost blind on one eye now.
This is my second attempt, less than three minutes, on a calibrated (ΔE<1.5) colour monitor
My first attempt scored 2, on a 9 years old, dim, food smudged, 7" tablet (I should not eat bananas and take tests at the same time).
I could not name any single one of those 100 colours, and I could not match clothes if my life depended on it. I don’t feel to have an unique sensitivity to colours, and can’t even draw stick figures.
This is to say that the test, while fine to detect problems, is probably not a good measure for an enhanced colour perception - not to diminish your experience and sensitivity.
I’d like to suggest “Seventh sight” by Greg Egan in his “instantiation” collection.
Good fiction from a mathematician, very closely related to the topic.
EtA: and of course (finally found it!) “The Secret Sense” by I.Asimov
Once I played a children’s game with my grandma and she kept confusing the blue and green balls, which I blamed on her dementia, but later I found out that for many people the light frequency that their cones detect slowly shifts down or up when they get older (and also changes during childhood). Which means that they apparently aren’t fixed to one specific frequency due to biology/chemistry, which means they probably are a bit different for everyone anyway.
About the article, my first reaction when seeing the headline was also one of sceptism; the internet is quite full of bogus claims, right? (even on BB) But it seems again the world is also quite full of wonderful things I didn’t know about 
(though ‘100 times’ still seems a bit clickbaity? looking at those color comparisons between 2 and 3 cones you’d think a fourth one adds one clear new color and a handful of unique blends? Not that that is less of a wonder)
Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Remember the laws of the internet, bub. COMMENT WITHOUT READING.
This is exactly accurate. Which is exactly why some folks refuse to accept ti as real.
This would take some trial and error but is otherwise feasible – I imagine someone has already devised the Ishihara test for tetrachromats.
As far as paints go, we 3-cone-ers could produce paints per our own spectrum, or for that matter dog spectrum, that still have pigment differences that we can’t see but tertrachromats can. I can easily imagine that she prefers one brand of pthalocyanine green to another because of differences we don’t – and can’t – see.
That seemed pretty easy. Perfect zero in about 3 minutes. Does that explain why I’m pretty obsessed with colour? Like when choosing paint, clothing, fabrics, etc, I’ll spend ages trying to find the perfect hue…
