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what a colour blind person sees
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If you have ever wondered what a person with a colour vision deficiency sees then I have just come across a site that will show you!
I have protinopia (no red colour receptors in my eyes) and I'm often asked what do things look like to you? Well if you follow this link you will see a copy of my photostream as I see it...
vischeck.homeip.net/uploads/113973944213534/ I'm not sure how long this copy will stay around, as I have only just found this site...
www.flickr.com/photos/59338427@N00/
The link to my photostream matches as at the post date of 12-Feb-2006
The actual site you can generate the images is at www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
and yes I can not see any difference between the flickr photostream and the simulated one!! If you really want to see the world through my eyes then this is it!!! ;)
sorry I just found this so cool I had to post it ;)
Tony.
Posted at 2:44AM, 12 February 2006 PDT
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alright, that's awesome, I'm colorblind too
that's so freaking cool!
Posted 77 months ago.
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hehehe at last when someone asks us so what do things look like to you we can show them!!! maybe won't work for people who are only slightly colour blind, but for someone like me where it is as bad as it gets (for one colour) it works a treat!!!
Tony.
Originally posted 77 months ago.
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_wintermute edited this topic 77 months ago.
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That's fascinating. It is so difficult to imagine what it must be like to have any kind of sensory deficiency. But to imagine not knowing what red looks like! Impossible. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 77 months ago.
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Still, it was interesting!
(I see very blurry without my corrective lenses)
All the purple flowers end up blue because you can't see red.
Interesting way to be able to show people.
Posted 77 months ago.
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Tony,
You might want to join this group: flickr.com/groups/53128764@N00/
Rick
Posted 77 months ago.
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Very interesting, Tony. Thank you for showing us what you see. Now I now in how many colors red is important. Without red the colors are hardly vivid and more dull. Although... for me, you probably have another idea of vivid and dull.
But the blues are really blue, and that`s nice. :)
And the yellow bud is so beautiful. I wanted to fave it, but alas I couldn`t. But I will fave the original, almost equally beautiful. :)
Posted 77 months ago.
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Tony, thank you so much for sharing your view of the world. You've given me a whole new perspective on what the world would look like minus one of the three primaries.
Posted 77 months ago.
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hehehe the funny thing is that because I've never known any different I think things are vivid :) the lilypad photo my Girlfriend was saying oh yuck that is awful, but to me it looks completely natural and very bright green ;) I just wish there was a way of making me see what everyone else does, I think I'd get rather a shock!!
@rick thanks for pointing me to the group :)
I had a bit more of a look around the site and there appears to be a photoshop plugin, will download it and see how it works :)
Tony.
Posted 77 months ago.
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I downloaded the plugin, it's alright...
also on that site is a section called Daltonize, it attempts to alter an image to help a colorblind person see it closer to what it really is.
I'm having a hard time with daltonize as I'm a rare case when in comes to my colorblindness, I don't see many different colors, not just one or two, but it also varies between shades, it took a while for the eye doctor to figure out what type of colorblindness I havem but he still isn't 100% sure..
but anyways try the daltonize out, it's interesting
Posted 77 months ago.
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ok here is another example. This is probably the most vivid photo I have in my stream. This is a side by side comparison, I can see a very very slight difference in the orange star at the top in the middle (slightly left of centre), but it is very subtle, just a tiny bit less bright, other than that the images look identical to me.
vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php?&img1=uploads...
edit: the more closely I look at these two images the more differences I start to notice, but I don't know if it is psychological, I do know that once I am told what colour something is it often looks different to what it did before I knew!! the red star beside the orange one is now looking slightly browner ;)
Tony.
Originally posted 77 months ago.
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_wintermute edited this topic 77 months ago.
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@jumpyspoon I did have a look at the daltonize, but found it very confusing, some pics looked the same and some looked so completely different that I was uncertain what they were, they almost looked like stylised paintings, I think maybe they were replacing red with blue (which is a colour I can see fine) to highlight things, the fruit picture was weird, the fruits now looked different colours, but I still could only make out three distict colours ;) I'm finding that the plugin for me seems not to give the same results as the web site, but maybe it's because when flipping between two images in photoshop (using undo/redo), the differences are more pronounced (basically less vivid, though still subtle)...
Tony.
Posted 77 months ago.
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did you try the daltonize on your own pics? you can do that too
Originally posted 77 months ago.
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jumpyspoon edited this topic 77 months ago.
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I just had a go jumpyspoon, but I suspect that using daltonize for me is a little like turning up the volume for someone who is profoundly deaf (ie it doesn't make any difference) ;)
the problem with protanopia is I don't have red colour receptors so I don't see pure red at all (rainbows only have 3 colours for me) and if I look at a spectrograph where the red is I see nothing, it's just blank.... so enhancing the red doesn't have any effect, when I used the default settings my pink waterlily turned a horrid unearthly fluorecent blue colour!!! also the example on the page with the fruit, I actually find it harder to distinguish the fruit in the daltonized one to the standard one ;) and once again it has a real sickly colour to it, quite off putting!
I showed my flatmate the pink waterlily and he said it looked white in the simulation, which is so strange to me because it is quite a bright pink to me (in both photos the same) ;)
Tony.
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