The British artist claims that he had created color in the “new” color, which was announced by scientists

A British artist claims to replicate a color in color that scientists say that they have been fired in their eyes by laser impulses.

Stuart Semple created his own version of the Blue Green color, which was published on the US research in Science Advances, which he sold on his website for £ 10,000 per 150 ml glass-or £ 29, if you find that you are artists.

In the experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, a laser was used to stimulate individual cells in the retinas from five researchers, which drives their color perception beyond its natural borders.

Semple, who previously made what he claims to be the blackest and pink colors in the world, synthesized his version of color in a lower way.

The artist mixed pigments and added fluorescent optical brighteners This absorbs ultraviolet light and reveals it as a visible blue light, with materials appear white or brighter. Using a spectrometer that divides light into its constituent colors, he then analyzed its intensity in order to best match his color samples with the target color.

“I always thought that color should be available to everyone,” said the artist, who also produced his own version of Yves Klein’s famous Ultramarine Blue Paint. “For years I fought to free these colors that either belong to companies, or scientists have made a claim or licensed to a single person.”

The scientists called the color Olo. Semple, who called his version Yolo, has form for the disrespectful reproduction of colors that are only available to a few exclusive.

When the artist Anish Kapoor bought the exclusive rights to the blackest color in the world, Semple made what he said a blacker and banished the gymnast winner.

Man perceives the colors of the world when light falls on color sensitive cells that are referred to as cones in the retina. There are three types of cones that are sensitive to long (l), medium (m) and short (s) wavelengths of light.

Red light mainly stimulates l -cones, while blue light mainly activates s cones. But m -cones sit in the middle and there is no natural light that excited it alone.

The Berkley experiment generated a color beyond the natural area of ​​the bare eye, since the M cones are almost exclusively stimulated. His name Olo comes from the binary 010, which points out that the L, M and S cones are only switched on the M -cones.

Semple said: “I think you have triggered an experience in people who approach you. What I did is trying to have an actual color of this experience.”

Austin Roorda, a vision scientist in the Berkeley team, said he would buy a bottle of color, but not for £ 10,000. “I could even commission my cousin, who is an artist, to work with this color,” he said.

“It is impossible to reproduce a color that fits with OLO,” he added. “Any color that you can reproduce would only fade in comparison. It does not matter whether it is a color or a color pattern or a monochromatic laser that creates the most saturated natural human color experiences.”

The scientist said that he also tried to reproduce the color by mixing two liqueurs: the slightly sweet melon melon message with Midori and Blue Curaçao, which was made from the dried bowl of the bitter orange.

“It’s a bit bad, said Roorda about the taste of the preparation.” But the more I drink, the more it looks like Olo. “