Archive for January, 2011

Color blindness spectrum images

January 14th, 2011
Deuteranopic Rainbow

How the rainbow looks to a person with deuteranopia

This Wikipedia page has some great graphics that give examples of what your colorblind child sees. (See the link at the bottom of excerpt, or click on the image at right.) Although it’s not the most scientific method, you can also see a similar effect if you have a TV with composite color (a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel.) If your TV will let you, unplug one of the colors and watch for a while. My TV won’t work without the green channel connected, but it will still work with the others unplugged.

Based on clinical appearance, color blindness may be described as total or partial. Total color blindness is much less common than partial color blindness.[7] There are two major types of color blindness: those who have difficulty distinguishing between red and green, and those who have difficulty distinguishing between blue and yellow.[8][9]

via Color blindness – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Superpowers

January 10th, 2011

As it turns out, colorblind people have a leg up on us normal people in a couple ways. More or less, they have superpowers. They can see in the dark better, and because of their coping mechanisms, their brains develop the ability to see camouflaged objects better then everyone else. Pattern recognition and reasoning skills have been shown to be more advanced in color-deficient people as well.

We told our son that because he sees colors differently, he has superpowers, and that he’s part of a special group of people who do. Since then, we’ve actually seen those things for ourselves. Just the other day we walked into a dark room and couldn’t find the light switch. He did. :)

So that’s why…

January 1st, 2011

We didn’t know what to expect from our son when we told him that he sees colors differently from most people. As it turned out, it explained a lot of things for him as well. Almost the first thing he said was, “So that’s why the rainbow looks blue and yellow to me. And why your red blanket looks orange.”

It’s cleared a lot of things up for him and us as well.