Tetrachromia

[pmv]

This is really weird. It seems almost like a real-world superpower.

‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours

As a kid, Concetta Antico was always ‘a bit out of the box’, but it took decades for her to discover just how differently she was seeing the world

www.theguardian.com

Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people have. While those of us with three of these receptors – called cone cells – have the ability to distinguish around one million different colours, tetrachromats see an estimated 100 million.

 

[nakedfrog]

She's a wizard!

 

[JM Aggie08]

"How do we represent this gift in a photo?"
"Just shine a fuckin' light in her eye."
"Brilliant."