So I am colorblind. It sucks. Can't join the military. Can't fly a plane. Can't tell what outfits look good. I should get some kind of disability stipend from the government for this shit.

2/6/2012 4:27:43 PM

or just wear black and white

2/6/2012 4:28:17 PM

Look on the bright side...at least you're not blind, and at least you're not colored.

2/6/2012 4:30:11 PM

Also, what the fuck does green look like? Is it close to brown? Cause that's what I see.

2/6/2012 4:31:06 PM

2/6/2012 4:31:07 PM

It looks like this

2/6/2012 4:36:24 PM

That shit's not green, it's teal

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 4:41 PM. Reason : ]

2/6/2012 4:41:06 PM

so you see blue fading to brown fading to yellow at a little over 500nm?

2/6/2012 4:41:50 PM

I usually get yellow and green mixed up (sometimes brown and green as well). I see white turning what I guess is yellow and staying yellow until around 580.

2/6/2012 4:45:52 PM

Skittles must be a bitch

2/6/2012 4:49:14 PM

why can't you join the military?

the only color my brother can actually see is blue and he was in the military

2/6/2012 4:56:54 PM

2/6/2012 4:58:35 PM

You can join, but you are severely limited in the types of jobs you are allowed to perform. Not that I would ever want to join the military.

2/6/2012 4:58:36 PM

My brother is color blind and an electrician.
He says that he has to number some of the wires.

2/6/2012 4:59:35 PM

yeah...he was in the Sea Bees so he was a builder in the navy...

i guess colors don't really matter there


he's "officially" red/green colorblind though....

i'm all like, "stop lights must be a bitch"

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 5:01 PM. Reason : sadf]

2/6/2012 4:59:39 PM

I, too, am colorblind.

When I was a kid I would draw brown apples and purple skies. I have a purple shirt that I thought was navy when I bought it. I wore a brown tie on St. Patricks day.

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM. Reason : ]

2/6/2012 5:01:12 PM

-Until very recently I thought peanut butter was green.

-I used to ask my parents why the football was the same color as the field.

-Basically, I learned to read by reading labels on crayons when I was like 3.

-I also can't tell blue from purple and have trouble with neon green/yellow as well as red/brown.

My favorite color as a kid was black for these reasons.

2/6/2012 5:21:33 PM

But what does "green" or "brown" mean to you if you can't distinguish the difference? Like, what does PURPLE really mean??

2/6/2012 6:43:41 PM

Quote :

"-I also can't tell blue from purple and have trouble with neon green/yellow as well as red/brown. "

But how do you tell who the dangerous minorities are? How do you know who to discriminate against?

2/6/2012 6:47:44 PM

haha I can imagine mixing paint for art class.

blue+yellow=brown

2/6/2012 6:51:56 PM

As previously stated, you can join the military. I know several people in the Navy and Coast Guard who are color blind. It just restricts which jobs you can do. So join up!

2/6/2012 6:56:03 PM

You could do some kind of intel or supply/logistics roles in the military.

And really for a private pilots license you just have to discern between the colors on the 'light gun' spotlight the tower uses to communicate in the event of a radio failure. Depending on the severity of your colorblindness you still may be able to tell the difference in the lights. Won't know until you try.

2/6/2012 7:46:11 PM

they should make a "Shit people say to colorblinds"

2/6/2012 8:19:23 PM

lol colorblinds

2/6/2012 8:22:10 PM

Quote :

"I usually get yellow and green mixed up"

Traffic lights must be a bitch. I mean, I'm sure you can tell which light is lit up, but still.

2/6/2012 8:31:00 PM

i, too, am colorblind. It sucks.

2/6/2012 8:50:20 PM

2/6/2012 9:01:37 PM

Mark Zuckerberg is fucking blind...thats why facebook is blue...only color mother fucker can see

fucking billionaires

2/6/2012 9:19:59 PM

Wow, that must suck. I am grateful for my colors.

2/6/2012 9:26:18 PM

My friend got a free ride in college because he was color blind. True Story.

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 9:29 PM. Reason : What color is the inbox when you have a pm?]

2/6/2012 9:28:50 PM

I don't get pm's

2/6/2012 10:17:39 PM

2/6/2012 10:52:09 PM

I hate looking at those ball pictures, even though I can read them.

2/6/2012 11:08:41 PM

I wish we had humans who evolved (or were engineered) to be tetrachromatic (like birds, who have cones sensitive to red, green, blue, and ultraviolet)...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tetrachromacy

2/6/2012 11:43:31 PM

I wish there were humans that had evolved to have wings and shoot blood out of their eyes...

2/7/2012 11:37:40 AM

I am partially colorblind.

2/7/2012 11:48:50 AM

bump because of message_topic.aspx?topic=633862

1/4/2013 1:44:09 PM

wait, what color is TWW if you're colorblind?

1/4/2013 1:56:48 PM

Are there any color blind women on TWW?

the chances are very slim...just wanting to know.


Blame your mom if you are are color blind. Its her fault.

1/4/2013 2:06:22 PM

I love color...this would be horrible

1/4/2013 2:16:32 PM

^^^^thank you for linking properly

[Edited on January 4, 2013 at 2:24 PM. Reason : many veteran users still don't know how to do it]

1/4/2013 2:23:37 PM

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"But what does "green" or "brown" mean to you if you can't distinguish the difference? Like, what does PURPLE really mean??"

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Quote :

"Qualia (pron.: /'kw??li?/ or /'kwe?li?/; singular form: quale (Latin pronunciation: ['kwa?le]) is a term used in philosophy to refer to individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term derives from a Latin word meaning for "what sort" or "what kind." Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky."

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Quote :

"Are there any color blind women on TWW?"

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1/4/2013 2:29:26 PM

^^^^^AFAIK, for the type of colorblindness most common in women (tritanopia or "yellow-blue colorblindness"), the main theme would still look red, but the and and faces would look dark, near black, the face would look dark green, the and would look dark red, and the and and faces would be near-white.

However, for red-green colorblindness (protanopia and deuteranopia, sex-linked and therefore almost entirely found in men), the red trim around the forums might look brown or black (prot) or just dark-yellow (deut); the might look grey, while and would appear yellow and and would appear blue.

Now the reason I say "yellow" rather than "red" is that for both the prot and the deut, what
trichromats perceive as the "red-to-green" part of the spectrum looks like the same hue, just more-or-less saturated and more-or-less dark, and the most saturated-looking spectral color is close to what trichromats call "yellow" (for the prot it's an a vaguely orange-tinged yellow, for the deut it's a greenish-tinged yellow), so AFAIK the other regions of the spectrum are seen as "darker shades of yellow."
In fact, for all dichromatic forms of colorblindness, what we call "hue" and "saturation" (or "chroma") are dependent on each other: The only color gradations between yellow and blue (or "red and green" for the tritanopes) go through grey rather than "around the color wheel."


As for color deficiency (much more common than total colorblindness, esp. deuteranomaly), the forum would probably still look red, and the major problems would involve distinguishing among unsaturated colors, like tan and pale pink and moss-green.

[Edited on January 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM. Reason : yeah, probs. with qualia are tuff

1/4/2013 2:38:46 PM

Bttt

You should have sent a pm to a chitchat mod if you wanted it bumped

1/5/2013 10:28:16 AM

As an example of the problem of qualia, in the Periodic Table of Videos entry for barium, Dr. Peter Licence of the University of Nottingham describes the flame of barium nitrate as "apple-green" but to me it looks like cyan, something IMO well within the broad region of "blue"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srJdQU3NOo#t=05m18s

In fact, the way I see it, on a proper color wheel, green, blue, and purple each occupy 1/4 of the space, with the purples being opposite to the greens and with the blues being opposite to red, orange, and yellow, and we only have all of these basic names for "opposites of blue" because we're more sensitive to variations of colors near orange than to variations of blue (which is peculiar to the apes and also may be why the traditional artist's color wheel gives 1/2 rather than 1/4 of the space to red, orange, and yellow).

Mark Scott Abeln illustrates it well here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/msabeln/6220548041/
He describes it more here: http://therefractedlight.blogspot.com/2011/10/visually-uniform-digital-color-wheel.html

[Edited on January 28, 2013 at 6:25 AM. Reason : more accurately variations of "azure" rather than RGB blue, which is at one end of "the blues"

1/28/2013 6:23:45 AM

bump: http://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-play-games-when-youre-colorblind-1606030489

Based on the following two charts, it appears the two pairs of hues that can reliably be distinguished from each other and from grey by the three types of dichromats (that is, that appear on opposite sides of the "confusion lines" that pass through neutral, and that are sufficiently far from the neutral line to be distinguished from it) are orange vs. blue and purple/pink vs. green, so those are the two good pairs of "opposing team" color, for example; red vs. cyan might also work, but there are very few cyan/teal colors that both protanopes and deuteranopes will readily distinguish from shades of grey, according to the lines of confusion on the chromaticity chart.


http://www.color-blindness.com/2007/01/23/confusion-lines-of-the-cie-1931-color-space/

The NIH, in documentation for its ImageJ program, recommends replacing red with magenta in the all-too-common red vs. green false-color images, for a similar reason: http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-9.html#toc-Subsubsection--7

In order, the columns show the diagrams as seen by trichromats, deuteranopes, protanopes, and tritanopes.

If you're looking for a whole palette of colors, rather than just two colors that look distinct and highly chromatic even to dichromats, consider this palette: http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/#pallet


Curiously, for some pairs of colors, dichromats are able to distinguish them better than trichromats, like "green" vs. "light green" vs. "bluish green" in this chart, which to trichromats are rather similar to each other, but to protanopes are more similar respectively to brown, tan, and grey than to each other.


[Edited on July 20, 2014 at 8:26 AM. Reason : tying it in to the first link

7/20/2014 8:24:51 AM

A friend who is colorblind plans to buy some of these
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/pogue/2013/08/15/glasses-that-solve-colorblindness-for-a-big-price-tag/

7/20/2014 8:43:00 AM

These glasses appear to only work on anomalous trichromats (specifically those with protanomaly, deuteranomaly, or some combination, but not tritanomaly), or on ordinary trichromats who just want to make the world look extremely colorful; they manipulate certain wavelengths of light to boost whatever color perception you already have for the M- and L-cones, and they work best under broad-spectrum light sources, like the sun.

7/20/2014 7:34:50 PM

it's all in the head

7/20/2014 10:24:37 PM

If you have deuteranomaly or protanomaly, these glasses may help you see all the colors; for everyone else (especially normal trichromats), they just make the world more colorful: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/seeing-in-techicolor-one-month-wearing-enchromas-color-blindness-correcting-glasses/

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