Only one in 100 can see 'invisible' colors in online test - are YOU one of them? READ MORE: Quiz will challenge everything you thought you knew about colors By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:31, 21 October 2024 | Updated: 21:54, 21 October 2024 e-mail 1 View comments About one percent of people worldwide can see 99 million more colors than the average person, creating a more vivid world, seeing hues invisible to most humans. Tetrachromacy is a rare genetic trait that endows people, primarily women , with a fourth color-detecting cone in their retinas.
Most humans have three cones in their eyes that detect variations of red, blue, and green along the spectrum of visible light. Tetrachromats have four. Tetrachromats can differentiate between more colors within the range of light visible to humans, allowing them to distinguish more subtle variations of color.
To see if you might be a tetrachromat, look at the spectrum and see how many hues you can make out. Most people can see between 20 and 32 colors on the spectrum, b ut people with tetrachromacy should be able to see at least 33 to 39 colors. Most people can see between 20 and 32 colors, making them trichomats.
But people with tetrachromacy should be able to see at least 33 to 39 colors. Take this test with a grain of salt, though, as computer monitors cannot show the full range of colors that a test with a doctor can Concetta Antico, a tetrachromat , said she has known something was d.