{"id":135214,"date":"2022-02-04T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/meet-the-artist-whose-genetic-mutation-means-she-can-see-100-times-more-colors-than-you"},"modified":"2022-02-04T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:42:36","slug":"meet-the-artist-whose-genetic-mutation-means-she-can-see-100-times-more-colors-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/meet-the-artist-whose-genetic-mutation-means-she-can-see-100-times-more-colors-than-you","title":{"rendered":"Meet the artist whose genetic mutation means she can see 100 times more colors than you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eU79gnVwtik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/concettaantico.com\/\">Concetta Antico<\/a> is the world\u2019s most famous tetrachromat, meaning she has four types of color receptors (cone cells) in her eyes. Most of us have three types. As a result of this mutation, Antico can see around 100 million colors, 100 times more than other people. Antico is an artist and she says that her psychedelic color paintings depict what she perceives. I wonder though what her paintings look like through her eyes. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jan\/30\/im-really-just-high-on-life-and-beauty-the-woman-who-can-see-100-million-colours\">The Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>According to Dr Kimberly Jameson, a University of California scientist who has studied Antico, just having the gene \u2013 which around 15% of women have \u2013 is not alone sufficient to be a tetrachromat, but it\u2019s a necessary condition. \u201cIn Concetta\u2019s case \u2026 one thing we believe is that because she\u2019s been painting sort of continuously since the age of seven years old, she has really enlisted this extra potential and used it. This is how genetics works: it gives you the potential to do things and if the environment demands that you do that thing, then the genes kick in.\u201d[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>While the natural world is a positive stimulant for Antico, many man-made environments, such as a large shopping centre with fluorescent lighting, have the opposite effect. \u201cI feel very uneasy. I actually avoid going into those kinds of buildings unless I absolutely have to,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t enjoy the barrage, the massive onslaught of bits of unattractive colour. I mean, there\u2019s a difference between looking at a row of stuff in a grocery store and looking at a row of trees. It\u2019s like, it\u2019s ugly, and the lights are garish. It makes me not happy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concetta Antico is the world\u2019s most famous tetrachromat, meaning she has four types of color receptors (cone cells) in her eyes. Most of us have three types. As a result of this mutation, Antico can see around 100 million colors, 100 times more than other people. Antico is an artist and she says that her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}