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drayfield • yesterday at 4:05 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Is it too late to rename it to Octarine?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octarine

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phikappa • yesterday at 4:24 PM

In my headcanon octarine is a colour between orange and deep purple. Sometimes it has a hazy blackish halo.

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ChrisMarshallNY • yesterday at 4:23 PM

+1 for the Sir Terry reference.

I suspect many animals experience color quite differently, including seeing infrared/ultraviolet, etc.

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ameliaquining • today at 12:41 AM

I thought of "The Colour Out of Space".

Razengan • yesterday at 5:35 PM

My thoughts as soon as I saw the title :)