Ryan Moulton maps real-world vibrant colors that fall outside the gamut of standard digital displays

@moultano Was pleased to find it had nothing to do with these guys

It’s ya boi

@moultano @AndyMasley Really great. When I was briefly obsessed with this topic, I was more interested in the colors screens can produce that aren’t possible/common in nature (outside of certain birds and insects). From what I could tell Pointer’s gamut was the last major measurement on that.

@moultano A truly great article! I would personally add opals as objects of unrendereable color, and arguably pieces of amber when looked through (the yellows on most displays are really muddy).

Also, to be serious, the sky in a printed magazine is bluer than onscreen.

@moultano glad to have played a small part in this

@moultano This reminds me of my favorite fact: an object appears to be the color it does not absorb.

The visible color is simply a mix of wavelengths that survive the interaction between light, the object, and our eyes

We don’t see an object’s “true” color. We see what it rejects/reflect

@moultano very nice post

@moultano My first thought was of different depths of water giving cyans that are outside the gamut of a monitor. I wonder if i can get them with watercolour paint. (The usual palette of colours I use when painting is missing very saturated magenta)

@moultano @Meaningness

@moultano Colospace heads rise up (I’m partial to Munsell)

@moultano It’s also well-known that colour perception tends to be relative, rather than absolute, so there might be tricks you can use.

@moultano this is great

@moultano Where do drugs come into this

@moultano Excellent write up, thanks for sharing

Will be thinking about this for a while: "Green traffic lights are anti-memetic because you only stare at a traffic light when it’s red"

@meditationstuff @moultano Very cool, thank you!

@moultano This is great. Thanks for writing it.

@moultano Ryan, this is incredible and I feel like I need to reread it when I’m baked.

@moultano Eranthis hyemalis, the winter aconite, is really very yellow, with (iirc) a strong component of near infra red. I find it quite hard to photograph, and a good test of different colour films.

@robotson @moultano wow! i made one of these just by experimenting in ms paint. i didn't even know what i was doing it was just through trial and error.

@moultano Color* obviously

@moultano sRGB - about 35% of visible colors Display-P3 - about 53% of visible colors Rec. 2020 - about 63% of visible colors

Our portal to the world sRGB only shows us 35% of visible color??