Colour Blindness...

[Karlos]

@mdma

Actually it's more a case of the general level of non-understanding of how colourblind people see the world that means they don't allow it as a recognised impairment.

Most colourblind people have no difficulty in recognising traffic lights in normal lighting conditions. However, depending on the type (something that the DVLA in particular clearly have no understanding of - that there are types of colour disability) and severity of the dysfunction, it can be impossible to tell certian traffic signals apart.

I myself find red traffic lights very hard to see in bright conditions and all traffic lights are hard to distinguish from a distance under any lighting conditions where the enclosure itself is not obvious.

[Karlos]

I wonder how those same images will look in adz-o-vision?

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
Did you see that news article about the painter who is (allegedly) completely colour-blind? They hooked up a camera to a laptop and converted all the visible wavelengths to sound frequencies. He aims the camera at a colour on his subject and the sound tells him which one it is. I thought that was pretty cool.

Yeah, but how the hell does he mix the paint? :-?

Karlos wrote:
@mdma

Actually it's more a case of the general level of non-understanding of how colourblind people see the world that means they don't allow it as a recognised impairment.

Most colourblind people have no difficulty in recognising traffic lights in normal lighting conditions. However, depending on the type (something that the DVLA in particular clearly have no understanding of - that there are types of colour disability) and severity of the dysfunction, it can be impossible to tell certian traffic signals apart.

I myself find red traffic lights very hard to see in bright conditions and all traffic lights are hard to distinguish from a distance under any lighting conditions where the enclosure itself is not obvious.

Perfect excuse for getting the wife to drive!

"Oooh, it's looking a bit grey out love.  Don't reckon I could see proper.  You best drive."

[X-ray]

@ Karlos

"...Yeah, but how the hell does he mix the paint?..."
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He aims the camera at the palette and if the sound frequency is too high or low, he adds colour of the right 'frequency' to fix it.

[X-ray]

I found the dude and the device here.

[Karlos]

mdma wrote:

Perfect excuse for getting the wife to drive!

"Oooh, it's looking a bit grey out love.  Don't reckon I could see proper.  You best drive."

Trust me, she is far and away too intelligent to fall for that. Whilst she knows and accepts the limitation of my vision, my saying the above is likely to meet with "It always looks grey to you, out or in."

A far better excuse is the fact I didn't actually take my driving test yet :lol:

Admittedly, that's largely the fact I never got round to it when I had time, and now I'm struggling to find it :-/

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
@ Karlos

"...Yeah, but how the hell does he mix the paint?..."
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He aims the camera at the palette and if the sound frequency is too high or low, he adds colour of the right 'frequency' to fix it.

That's interesting. How do you fully eproduce colour as sound? OK, it's fine for the basic spectrum since you are mapping frequency of light to frequency of sound. However, even I know there's no such thing as the "brown" wavelength. Some colours are mixtures of wavelengths of light. Does the device play complex harmonics?

I could imagine using three harmonizing notes for each of your primary wavelengths in differeing volumes to represent the component intensity...

Hmm, I might go and listen to some of Rembrandt's stuff :-D

[Doobrey]

mdma wrote:
"Oooh, it's looking a bit grey out love.  Don't reckon I could see proper.  You best drive."

Maybe the it gets him out of shopping with her too ..
 "What do you think of this dress?"
 "I dunno, grey always makes your bum look big" :-D

[Karlos]

:roflmao:

[adz]

Karlos wrote:
I wonder how those same images will look in adz-o-vision?

That had me rolling for a second there :roflmao:

Seriously, I really don't know how to describe how they look because the way I see the world, it appears normal, yet to a "norm" it would probably be quite odd indeed. Best example I could use would be the grass, a norm would be able to see distinct variations in hue with the different types of grass/weeds present, whilst it would all appear the same tone of green to me. I honestly don't think I see a different colour scale, but I know I don't see as many colours.

[Doobrey]

Doobrey wrote:
Maybe the it gets him out of shopping with her too ..

And if that fails to get you out of it,try my patented guaranteed method.
 "Does this dress make my bum look big?"
 "No dear, the dress is fine, it's the cellulite that makes your arse look big"

It maybe painful, but it's worth it in the long run. :-)

[whabang]

Karlos wrote:

whabang wrote:
It kinda looks like as if it was in the middle of the night, although much lighter.

Your cone cells require much higher levels of light than the rods to be stimulated properly. Generally, everybody sees in greyscale in low enough light levels :-)

Well, at night, everything gets a blue hue, even when there is no moonlight.  At least in my eyes. :-)

Doobrey wrote:

Doobrey wrote:
Maybe the it gets him out of shopping with her too ..

And if that fails to get you out of it,try my patented guaranteed method.
 "Does this dress make my bum look big?"
 "No dear, the dress is fine, it's the cellulite that makes your arse look big"

It maybe painful, but it's worth it in the long run. :-)

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

Good one! :-)

Reminds me of one I use when she catches me eyeing up another bird.  Quick as a flash the moment I realise I've been caught, I say:-

"Look at the state of her, what does she think she looks like?"

Which automatically appeals to a womans vanity and b!tchy nature, and gives the reply:-

"I know, what a tart! Look at the state of her boobs, all falling out of her top!"

"Yes love, I am!" ;-)


Works *everytime*.

[Karlos]

whabang wrote:

Well, at night, everything gets a blue hue, even when there is no moonlight.  At least in my eyes. :-)

Funny, I can't say I ever really thought about it before but you might be right.

One thing's for sure, they completely overdo that effect in movies :-)

[X-ray]

Like in Tron ?  :-P