Posted July 31, 200816 yr http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm#demonstration%20card I can't see any of this stuff :( Who else is colorblind?
July 31, 200816 yr http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm#demonstration%20card I can't see any of this stuff :( Who else is colorblind? I saw all of them. Many men are colorblind. I forget what the percentage is, but it's surprising.
July 31, 200816 yr Yes, indeed, I failed every one of those. I saw the 'base' shapes, but not the 'hidden' ones. So I saw a square on 1, a circle on 2 and nothing on 3. I have problems with differentiating between certain shades of red/browns, yellows/greens and some blues/greens. I can see each color individually, particularly if I'm concentrating and/or someone tells me the color. But for a couple I can only call it "that color" because I really can't tell you what it is definitively. A good example is a shirt I wore a lot in my Sophomore / Junior year of high school. I wore it for two years before someone pointed out that the gray striped shirt I thought I was wearing was actually a dusty rose color. Sheesh. For the most part it doesn't effect me. It really only manifests itself when I'm clothes shopping (which I no longer do alone!) or picking out home decor like paints, patterns etc (which I never do anyway).
July 31, 200816 yr Several years ago, a friend and I were sitting around on a Saturday afternoon having a few beers and watching an Indians game at my house. After a few, we got the urge to play some bocce ball in the backyard, however I had just moved in, and did not bring my set from my parents house. So we headed up to Sears near my house to buy a bocce set. We got in the store, split up to find it (probably a little tipsy and not thinking just toward the backyard games section). About 5 minutes later, I found my buddy sitting on the floor of Sears with at least 6 or 7 sets out of the box. A store attendent came up to him and asked him if he needed some help. He looked at me and said, "man, there is no way we are going back to your place, painting all these, and waiting for them to dry before we play. The sales woman and I looked at eachother like what is he talking about. Then he looks at the sales attendent and says, why are they all red. I started laughing hystarically when he said that as I remembered he is color blind. He looked at me and said, their half green half red aren't they. "YEP! Lets go".
July 31, 200816 yr Hahaha .. hilarious, gotribe. I could see all of them, which is GOOD. As a graphic designer, I'd be screwed.
July 31, 200816 yr So me and AJ are the only ones who see the world differently? Yes, thru rose colored glasses! :laugh:
July 31, 200816 yr So me and AJ are the only ones who see the world differently? I like to think that our receptive sensors are more highly evolved and have the ability to eliminate redundancies.
July 31, 200816 yr Well I passed all of those easily. I guess that I am not colorblind and that my wife and I just really do see the world differently. GoTribe, great story about the Bocce balls.
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool.
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool. That's not colorblindness, that's just a lack of coordination :lol:
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool. That's not colorblindness, that's just a lack of coordination :lol: ...or too much to drink.
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool. That's not colorblindness, that's just a lack of coordination :lol: Nope I knocked the ball I was shooting at right where it was supposed to go. Unfortunately it was the wrong color! :oops:
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool. That's not colorblindness, that's just a lack of coordination :lol: Nope I knocked the ball I was shooting at right where it was supposed to go. Unfortunately it was the wrong color! :oops: LMAO!
July 31, 200816 yr I knew that I had issues when I shot the yellow ball instead of the white cue ball when playing pool. That's not colorblindness, that's just a lack of coordination :lol: Nope I knocked the ball I was shooting at right where it was supposed to go. Unfortunately it was the wrong color! :oops: HA! Thanks for the laugh! I can only imagine what your friends were thinking after that shot.
August 4, 200816 yr I didn't know until I was 22 that I'm colorblind. I applied for USAF Pilot/Navigator training, and aced all the written exams with near-perfect scores. Then came the physical, and I did poorly on depth perception and completely wiped out on color vision. End of exam. Those were the first two things they checked, so I suspect those are the problems they most often encounter. The color vision also wiped me out on another aspiration, electronics, because components like resistors and capacitors were color-coded with different patterns of stripes to indicate their values. No change on these tests. I failed every one. I can distinguish the strong colors of traffic signals, but on more subtle colors I'm clueless. Give me two identically-styled shirts, one light blue and the other light green, and if I hope to get the right one I have to compare them side-by-side in a strong daylight-balanced light. Try to imagine the blind faith I put in the auto color balance features of my camera and Photoshop when working with color photos. If I put up something really screwy, now you'll know why.
August 4, 200816 yr I never realized that so many men struggled with distinguishing colors. A family friend of mine is colorblind and he thinks that grass is orange or something. The only color he can see correctly is yellow.
August 4, 200816 yr I think it effects people differently. I have trouble distinguishing blue and purple, especially if it is a dark blue. Green and Grey are oten the same. Orange and Yellow are often the same. I bought a button down one time with stripes and thought there were red stripes in it and it turns it they were pink, after someone pointing out I was wearing pink. I got all defensive and said stfu it's Salmon!
August 4, 200816 yr I think it effects people differently. I have trouble distinguishing blue and purple, especially if it is a dark blue. Green and Grey are oten the same. Orange and Yellow are often the same. I bought a button down one time with stripes and thought there were red stripes in it and it turns it they were pink, after someone pointing out I was wearing pink. I got all defensive and said stfu it's Salmon! LMAO! Lawd! Great comeback!
August 4, 200816 yr I saw this topic and knew I would fail and of course, I failed. I have problems with differentiating between certain shades of red/browns, yellows/greens and some blues/greens. I can see each color individually, particularly if I'm concentrating and/or someone tells me the color. That pretty much sums it up for me too.
August 4, 200816 yr I think it effects people differently. I have trouble distinguishing blue and purple, especially if it is a dark blue. Green and Grey are oten the same. Orange and Yellow are often the same. I bought a button down one time with stripes and thought there were red stripes in it and it turns it they were pink, after someone pointing out I was wearing pink. I got all defensive and said stfu it's Salmon! YOU SEE!! It's not just me! Godd@mned pink striped shirts. Who the @#$% besides us colorblind shmucks are wearing these things anyway?
August 4, 200816 yr I think it effects people differently. I have trouble distinguishing blue and purple, especially if it is a dark blue. Green and Grey are oten the same. Orange and Yellow are often the same. I bought a button down one time with stripes and thought there were red stripes in it and it turns it they were pink, after someone pointing out I was wearing pink. I got all defensive and said stfu it's Salmon! YOU SEE!! It's not just me! Godd@mned pink striped shirts. Who the @#$% besides us colorblind shmucks are wearing these things anyway? I have a shirts in various shades of "pink". Such as the previously mentioned salmon, coral, fuchsia, rose or flesh. Wear your pink proudly boys! :laugh:
August 4, 200816 yr A friend of mine was colorblind until he was prescribed reading glasses with color-correction lens coating. For the first time in his life he could "see" color. He enjoyed this new status for several years until his astigmatism required new lenses. He then found out the company that made the corrective lenses had gone out of business. He's back to colorblind now. Silver-lining: in his new job developing web advertising his colorblindness is a huge advantage.
August 4, 200816 yr Wear your pink proudly boys! :laugh: The cruel irony of this post is that I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic by posting "pink" in another color, because it looks gray to me :x
August 4, 200816 yr Yep, the good ole y chromosome really kicks men in the butt on this topic. It carries little genetics for color vision. Therefore guys have to hope their X chromosome has no mutations in the color department. If it does, you’ve got some color blindness. In fact many women are able to see shades of color on the red side of the color spectrum that no men are able to see. I forget what it’s called but it’s a trait that only exists if the gene is present in both chromosomes. Since it only occurs on the x chromosome, only women have the ability to get it.
August 5, 200816 yr Wear your pink proudly boys! :laugh: The cruel irony of this post is that I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic by posting "pink" in another color, because it looks gray to me :x he...he....he....he :evil:
August 5, 200816 yr >Try to imagine the blind faith I put in the auto color balance features of my camera and Photoshop when working with color photos. If I put up something really screwy, now you'll know why I have severe nearsightedness and an uncorrectable astigmatism in my right eye and can't get lasik but I have great color vision. I think this is actually why I prefer black & white photography, because I find rich colors distracting from form.
August 5, 200816 yr Silver-lining: What's a silver-lining? As in "Every cloud has a..." The good inside the seemingly bad. Example: kingfish out of water produces CO2, and that helps the trees grow.
August 8, 200816 yr Yep, the good ole y chromosome really kicks men in the butt on this topic. It carries little genetics for color vision. Therefore guys have to hope their X chromosome has no mutations in the color department. If it does, you’ve got some color blindness. In fact many women are able to see shades of color on the red side of the color spectrum that no men are able to see. I forget what it’s called but it’s a trait that only exists if the gene is present in both chromosomes. Since it only occurs on the x chromosome, only women have the ability to get it. ^A recessive trait is one that is only expressed if it is located on both chromosomes. Also, one of the X chromosomes in each female cell is inactivated randomly via a process called Lyonization. I suppose this trait can be expressed if half of paternal Xs and half of maternal Xs are inactivated. The Y chromosome carries a lot less genetic material than X, the extra male stuff (with female being the default human), and neither X nor Y is inactivated in males.
August 8, 200816 yr I have severe nearsightedness and an uncorrectable astigmatism in my right eye and can't get lasik but I have great color vision. I think this is actually why I prefer black & white photography, because I find rich colors distracting from form. I agree with you on that, especially in the built environment. Some landscapes, particularly in the American West, lose impact in color photography but stand out in black & white, too. I'm thinking of work by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston as examples. On the other hand, there are scenes whose defining attribute for me is color. I'm remembering some back roads in Southeastern Ohio and West Virginia, with sunlit autumn foliage in rich and varied colors and clear, saturated blue skies.
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