On April 1, 2035, in Denver, Colorado, Arthur Iris discovered a new color.
Well—not discovered, exactly. Rather, during the course of his research on mantis shrimp, he devised a mechanism to mimic the optic functions of these creatures, which use twelve color receptors to form their visible light spectrum, whereas humans use only three. This prototype receptor lens was far from perfect, but it gave Iris a window into a vivid new color which had literally never been seen by human eyes.
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