80 Shades of Balagha
📅 Sun 6 September 2026 at 15:55 BST
How many colours can the human eye distinguish? I can honestly say that in over 35 years of studying science, anatomy, physiology, and medicine, I have never really thought about it. Have you? What I mean is - how many colours can a human reliably tell apart? The textbooks say the eye can perceive somewhere in the region of 1-10 million different colours. Standard TVs can now produce 16.7 million colours, and the newest ones over 1 billion. But that's not what I'm asking. You take …[Continue reading...]
