• ...if you want a way to reliably and consistently make custom color changes to the full 3D space of digital trichromatic colors.

• ...if you want to view paintings in many different colors and through many different kinds of color visions without having to redraw or manually adjust every color.

• ...if you're studying color vision and want an easy plug-in method for different kinds of simulated color visions.

• ...if you want to experiment with viewing the innumerable dichoptic colors in meaningful contexts (e.g. in games, images and videos).

• ...if you want to experience hexachromatic dichoptic colors (in a trichromatic context) in VR without having to cross your eyes.

• ...if you want to read black and white media (e.g. Manga) in color.

• ...if you're an anomalous trichromat with a color vision deficiency and want a way to adjust the colors of your screen with high precision.

• ...if you want to test out different color visions, no matter how silly or peculiar they might seem.

• ...if you want a way to highly certain colors of the digital trichromatic color space with high precision.

• ...if you want to simulate normal trichromatic color discriminability as someone with a color vision deficiency. See How To Correct Color Vision Deficiencies and A Functional Trichromacy for the Colorblind for more information.

• ...and a lot more useful areas of application! Your only limit is your imagination.

Since color encompasses almost everything we encounter in digital media (an exception being music, for example), having the ability to adjust and change any color of the digital 3D color space to any other color you like – and that even for each eye individually – is what makes Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop a powerful all-rounder that can be used for almost anything.

OS: Windows 11 64-bit. With Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) the screen capture and/or overlay functionality may not work.

Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-6300 (4 hardware threads)

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: DirectX 11–compatible GPU with ≥2 GB VRAM (GeForce GTX 660, Radeon HD 7870, or newer integrated Intel UHD 630)

DirectX: Version 11 (feature level 11_0) 

Storage: 500 MB available space

Display: 1× monitor up to 1920 × 1080 at 60 Hz 

OS: Windows 11 64-bit (25H2); Window 11 is highly recommended because the overlay functionality only works on Windows 11!

Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Memory: 16 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti / RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 590 / 6600 (≥4 GB VRAM)

DirectX: Version 12 (feature level 12_0 – fully backward compatible)

Storage: 1 GB available space

Display: Up to 2560 × 1440 @ 75 Hz, multiple-monitor 1080p setups (a higher native screen resolution will cost more performance)

The first commercially available version of the Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop application (V1.0).

01: image: logo

02: text: application name

03: button: minimize window

04: button: maximize window

05: button: close window

06: input field: enter/adjust template name (avoid duplicating template names)

07: button: reload template list

08: button: add (current settings) as new template

09: button: overwrite selected template

10: button: load/select default template (i.e. normal trichromacy)

11: button: delete selected template

12: button: open file path window

13: button: open link to website window

14: button: expand/contract loaded texture preview

15: button: switch between full-screen & windowed

16: button: normalize window size (to 25% of screen resolution)

17: slider: texture slice selection

18: button: texture preview and selection; click to open OS native file selection; only images and dedicated 3D texture files can be loaded

19: slider: vertically slice through 1D/2D textures over time; rotate 3D textures

20: image: hue spectrum preview

21: button: normalize texture slice selection

22: button: top/bottom texture slice selection

23: button: bottom/top texture slice selection

24: button: random texture slice selection

25: image: animated logo

26: text: template name

27: button: template area

28: image: 1D/2D texture preview

29: image: 3D texture preview

30: button: example: 3D texture preview

31: button: example: 1D/2D texture preview

32: input field: folder structure file path directory; load any custom directory that contains the necessary folder structure; folder structure is created automatically if there isn't one already; just select an empty folder (with any name you like) and the necessary folder structure will be created in there if not already present

33: button: selects the default folder structure on the desktop; folder structure is created and named automatically if there isn't one already

34: button: close file path window (see: #12)

Selecting a template will move it to the top of the template list. You cannot manually relocate templates up or down in the template list. Use mouse wheel or dragging on a template to move up and down in the template list. Motionlessly hover over an UI element for a short time to show its tooltip.

01: folder: contains current 3D texture data (left)

02: folder: contains current 3D texture data (right)

03: folder: contains current spectrum slice (left)

04: folder: contains current spectrum slice (right)

05: folder: contains the default 1D texture that's loaded by clicking on the "load/select default template" button in the Settings

06: folder: contains the default 3D texture that's loaded by clicking on the "load/select default template" button in the Settings

07: folder: contains the template list (left); after adding or deleting a texture click the "reload template list" button in the Settings for this change to register

08: folder: contains the template list (right); after adding or deleting a texture click the "reload template list" button in the Settings for this change to register

09: folder: contains a temporary spectrum of the selected template (left)

10: folder: contains a temporary spectrum of the selected template (right)

11: text file: contains file path directory name; avoid manually changing the contents of this file

01: button: open Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop in PC mode

02: button: open Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop in VR mode (VR pipeline has to be set up beforehand)

03: button: open link to website window

01: image: logo; appears in the top left the closer you get to it; click to de-/activate all visual elements but the split-screens

02: text: selected template's name; use the Settings' #06 to change a template's name

03: button: application screenshot (3840x2160); screenshot will be save to a folder named "Screenshots (Color in Color)" on your desktop

04: button: cycle through available monitors

05: button: open file path window; i.e. the same window and functionality is in #12 of the Settings

06: button: open link to website window

07: button: open hexachromatic code reader; click on a (dichoptic) color on the split-screen to select it and close the hexachromatic code reader

08: text: shows the hexachromatic code of the selected (dichoptic) color; can be copied to clipboard

09: image: split-color preview of the selected (dichoptic) color

10: button: open dichoptic zoom display; additional zoom can be applied via the mouse wheel; click anywhere on the screen to close the zoom display

11: button: toggle display outline

12: button: switch between full-screen & windowed

13: slider: resize stereo displays (i.e. the split-screens); this functionality useful for beginners in stereo viewing techniques

14: button: paste custom background color hex-code from clipboard (example: #ff0000, the "#" in the front is necessary!); this is an experimental feature

15: button: revert background color to normal

16: text: frames per second (FPS) of the application; does not perfectly reflect the FPS of the screen capture

17: image: animated logo

18: image: split-screen (left); double click to expand to full window size

19: image: split-screen (right); double click to expand to full window size

20: image: preview spectrum of selected template (left)

21: image: preview spectrum of selected template (right)

22: button: focused screen (left or right) in full window size; double click to shrink screen to original size

Motionlessly hover over an UI element for a short time to show its tooltip. Drag the split-screens to the left to switch to a split-screens with normal trichromacy, and vice versa. Drag the top visual element row up and down to change the vertical position of all visual elements. Double click a screen to focus and expand it to full window size.

• activate see/click through feature: left control + left shift + o

In the PC mode you can use this shortcut "LEFT STRG + LEFT SHFIT + O" to activate the see/click through feature. This feature lets the screen capture ignore its own window, allowing you to use this tool on a single screen without it recording itself. This is an experimental feature that may or may not work with your hardware and software setup!

Other shortcuts are explained via the tooltips inside the application. Motionlessly hover over an UI element for a short time to show its tooltip.

01: window: example: SteamVR window with Pico 4 VR headset loaded

02: button: adjust the virtual screen's curvature and position; quickly move the controller forward or backward to change the screen's distance/size; quickly move the controller left or right to change the screen's horizontal position; quickly move the controller up or down to change the screen's vertical position; tilt the controller to the left to steadily flatten the screen and to the right to steadily curve it; click the primary button of the respective VR controller to close the screen adjustment; the custom screen curvature and position is saved across sessions

03: button: take VR screenshot (split-screen); saves screenshot to a folder named "Screenshots (Color in Color VR)" on your desktop

04: button: revert the virtual screen's curvature and position back to normal

05: button: cycle to next available monitor

06: button: close application

07: button: switch between normal VR view mode and VR screenshot view mode

08: text: import VR image for VR screenshot view mode; image must be in the same style as VR screenshots take with this application, i.e. as seamless horizontal array of two equally sized images

09: button: open file path settings window & with the VR recording button (see VR Recording: #01)

10: image: option selection indicator; black = not selected, green = selected

11: image: virtual screen (overlapping left & right eye perspectives)

12: text: selected template's name; use the Settings' #06 to change a template's name

13: text: description of the circular context menu's selected option

14: button: folder structure file path directory; load any custom directory that contains the necessary folder structure; folder structure is created automatically if there isn't one already; just select an empty folder (with any name you like) and the necessary folder structure will be created in there if not already present

15: button: selects the default folder structure on the desktop; folder structure is created and named automatically if there isn't one already

16: button: close file path window

17: button: open VR Recording Overlay (see: VR Recording)

• Quit Application: Escape

01: button: click to open the VR Recording Overlay

02: image: VR Recording Overlay's left screen; click to expand this screen to full window size

03: image: VR Recording Overlay's right screen; click to expand this screen to full window size

04: background: click to close the VR Recording Overlay

05: image: VR Recording Overlay's expanded left screen; click to shrink this screen to full window size

06: image: VR Recording Overlay's expanded right screen; click to shrink this screen to full window size

• The Hexachromatic Code Reader might not always perfectly read out the colors on the split-screen. The color name may sometimes be inaccurate.

Yes, currently Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop is only available for Windows 11. It may or may not work for Window 10.

First, please read this website for the Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop very carefully once again. Your question might have already been answered resp. your problem already solved, and you might have just overlooked it.

If there's still questions and your problem hasn't been addressed, you can get help and support on the Ooqui Sensory Lab Discord server. 

I might or might not reply! Support is currently free, so it's entirely dependent on my time schedule, and whether I can or want to help with solving your problems and answering your questions! Only use the support e-mail if your feel like it's absolutely necessary!

Yes.

In the PC mode you can use the shortcut "LEFT STRG + LEFT SHFIT + O" to activate the see/click through feature. This feature lets the screen capture ignore its own window, allowing you to use this tool on a single screen without it recording itself. This is an experimental feature that may or may not work with your hardware and software setup!

In the VR mode you can simply minimize the window. This frees up your view of the desktop in VR so that the window doesn't record itself.

Alternatively, in the PC mode you can use Virtual Display to simulate a virtual monitor. Once this virtual monitor is setup correctly, you can automatically switch to it in the Color in Color: Hexachromatic Desktop main application via the monitor switch button.

Last Updated: August 11, 2026

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