Sometimes I find interesting is how (1) screens and printed matter can’t represent greens as saturated as… a green laser pointer but (2) nobody complains because real-life greens (plants) are nowhere near near as saturated as the usual (0,255,0).
While you are right, I find much more annoying the displays that can still be found and that are limited to the sRGB color space, or the movies or images recorded using the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces.
These color spaces cannot reproduce a green laser pointer, but what annoys me is that they are far more limited in their ability to reproduce the colors in the red-orange corner. Unlike with very saturated greens, very saturated red, orange or purple colors, which are outside the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces, are frequently encountered in flowers, fruits, gems, clothes etc.
Many good displays have a color gamut close to DCI-P3, with a much more saturated red than in sRGB. If the images or movies are also encoded using a wider color space, e.g. BT.2020, than more natural colors can be reproduced.
For reproducing the color of a laser pointer, the only solution is to use a laser projector, which also uses laser diodes for the primary colors.
For reproducing an even wider color space than possible with 3 lasers, one would have to use 4 or more lasers.
However, because the band-pass filters corresponding to the human photo-receptors are imperfect, any external source of light will excite multiple receptors, so no external display can produce the same sensation as described in the parent article, where they have used intraocular aiming of the laser spot, on individual receptors, simulating thus receptors with perfect color selectivity.
I don’t know about ‘nobody’ — I’ve definitely heard people (myself included) complain that screens are noticeably limited in the green part of the spectrum, and aren’t as rich as real life (or even photographic transparency film).
One thing I’ve also noticed is that screen greens seem much richer when using f.lux or Night Shift. They can’t change the screen gamut, but somehow seem better.
Sometimes I find interesting is how (1) screens and printed matter can’t represent greens as saturated as… a green laser pointer but (2) nobody complains because real-life greens (plants) are nowhere near near as saturated as the usual (0,255,0).
While you are right, I find much more annoying the displays that can still be found and that are limited to the sRGB color space, or the movies or images recorded using the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces.
These color spaces cannot reproduce a green laser pointer, but what annoys me is that they are far more limited in their ability to reproduce the colors in the red-orange corner. Unlike with very saturated greens, very saturated red, orange or purple colors, which are outside the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces, are frequently encountered in flowers, fruits, gems, clothes etc.
Many good displays have a color gamut close to DCI-P3, with a much more saturated red than in sRGB. If the images or movies are also encoded using a wider color space, e.g. BT.2020, than more natural colors can be reproduced.
For reproducing the color of a laser pointer, the only solution is to use a laser projector, which also uses laser diodes for the primary colors.
For reproducing an even wider color space than possible with 3 lasers, one would have to use 4 or more lasers.
However, because the band-pass filters corresponding to the human photo-receptors are imperfect, any external source of light will excite multiple receptors, so no external display can produce the same sensation as described in the parent article, where they have used intraocular aiming of the laser spot, on individual receptors, simulating thus receptors with perfect color selectivity.
I don’t know about ‘nobody’ — I’ve definitely heard people (myself included) complain that screens are noticeably limited in the green part of the spectrum, and aren’t as rich as real life (or even photographic transparency film).
One thing I’ve also noticed is that screen greens seem much richer when using f.lux or Night Shift. They can’t change the screen gamut, but somehow seem better.
Brilliant, really. I have several observations of nearly this color from iPhone photos in late 2023
https://curtiswmoore.com/images/IMG_0224.JPEG
https://therefractedlight.blogspot.com/2010/09/imaginary-and...
Now that scientists have discovered cyan, we can have color printers.