Yesterday, I saw colour for the first time...
Discussion
OK - prep time...
Things you need for the 'first try':
Orange hi viz vest (or similar)
Bright day (it gives the biggest impact, and this is the first time...
)
A 'nursery school' colour chart - ideally including purple, brown, orange, turquoise.
Flowering houseplant.
Someone filming!
Grass.
Things you need for the 'first try':
Orange hi viz vest (or similar)
Bright day (it gives the biggest impact, and this is the first time...
)A 'nursery school' colour chart - ideally including purple, brown, orange, turquoise.
Flowering houseplant.
Someone filming!
Grass.
Thanks for the tips buddy.
I live in a semi-rural area so I’m sure there will be plenty of things literally on my doorstep that’ll fascinate me. There are woods, fields, hills and all sorts of birds and wildlife which I’m certain will look very different soon.
Also I just remembered I have a 4-day weekend from Friday, so will have loads of time to try these out in various locations!
I live in a semi-rural area so I’m sure there will be plenty of things literally on my doorstep that’ll fascinate me. There are woods, fields, hills and all sorts of birds and wildlife which I’m certain will look very different soon.
Also I just remembered I have a 4-day weekend from Friday, so will have loads of time to try these out in various locations!
), it's brilliant! Sway said:
OK - prep time...
Things you need for the 'first try':
Orange hi viz vest (or similar)
Bright day (it gives the biggest impact, and this is the first time...)
A 'nursery school' colour chart - ideally including purple, brown, orange, turquoise.
Flowering houseplant.
Someone filming!
Grass.
Yeah grass used to affect my colour perception too. Given it up now.Things you need for the 'first try':
Orange hi viz vest (or similar)
Bright day (it gives the biggest impact, and this is the first time...
)A 'nursery school' colour chart - ideally including purple, brown, orange, turquoise.
Flowering houseplant.
Someone filming!
Grass.
EFH189 said:
Hello again all, so I have worn the glasses for a little while now. I’m just knitting together a video for YouTube, which should be ready shortly.
I’m currently putting on A Perfect Planet on my QLED in UHD. I suspect this might be mind-blowing!
Hope they're as world changing for you as they have been for me.
My assessment so far…
Well I can certainly see more colours now, not sure exactly what those colours are of course, but I seem to be able to see more contrast with certain colours appearing a lot more vividly than they do without the glasses on.
I’ve done some out and about stuff, and watched quite a few things on tv and iPad in high resolution with lots of vibrant colours. Tom & Jerry and Scooby Do cartoons looked very different!
So in summary, early days, I’ve definitely seen new shades and colours. Will be letting some friends with perfect colour vision try them to see what they say.
I was looking at familiar logos, and as I swim I thought my Speedo shorts had a red flash when it’s actually gold (I had to look up the colour, but I could see it completely differently with the glasses on!).
Fascinating and confusing in the same measures!
Well I can certainly see more colours now, not sure exactly what those colours are of course, but I seem to be able to see more contrast with certain colours appearing a lot more vividly than they do without the glasses on.
I’ve done some out and about stuff, and watched quite a few things on tv and iPad in high resolution with lots of vibrant colours. Tom & Jerry and Scooby Do cartoons looked very different!
So in summary, early days, I’ve definitely seen new shades and colours. Will be letting some friends with perfect colour vision try them to see what they say.
I was looking at familiar logos, and as I swim I thought my Speedo shorts had a red flash when it’s actually gold (I had to look up the colour, but I could see it completely differently with the glasses on!).
Fascinating and confusing in the same measures!
EFH189 said:
My assessment so far…
Well I can certainly see more colours now, not sure exactly what those colours are of course, but I seem to be able to see more contrast with certain colours appearing a lot more vividly than they do without the glasses on.
I’ve done some out and about stuff, and watched quite a few things on tv and iPad in high resolution with lots of vibrant colours. Tom & Jerry and Scooby Do cartoons looked very different!
So in summary, early days, I’ve definitely seen new shades and colours. Will be letting some friends with perfect colour vision try them to see what they say.
I was looking at familiar logos, and as I swim I thought my Speedo shorts had a red flash when it’s actually gold (I had to look up the colour, but I could see it completely differently with the glasses on!).
Fascinating and confusing in the same measures!
Perfect! Well I can certainly see more colours now, not sure exactly what those colours are of course, but I seem to be able to see more contrast with certain colours appearing a lot more vividly than they do without the glasses on.
I’ve done some out and about stuff, and watched quite a few things on tv and iPad in high resolution with lots of vibrant colours. Tom & Jerry and Scooby Do cartoons looked very different!
So in summary, early days, I’ve definitely seen new shades and colours. Will be letting some friends with perfect colour vision try them to see what they say.
I was looking at familiar logos, and as I swim I thought my Speedo shorts had a red flash when it’s actually gold (I had to look up the colour, but I could see it completely differently with the glasses on!).
Fascinating and confusing in the same measures!
Colour sighted friends will just see the world with a pink tint. The way the glasses work their brain will just completely ignore.
You're now at the "conscious Incompetence" stage of learning - when it comes to colour, this is something most learn as a toddler/very young child. Until you had the glasses, you didn't really know how much you didn't know!
I started actually consciously 'analysing' what I was seeing. I know technically that brown is green and red mixed, but I'd never seen it. Initially, I would look at something and think "that's green, but reddish - so that must be brown?" (similar for purple, etc.)...
Paint cards, nursery school colour charts, etc., are all good ways of having conscious 'colour lessons'.
What's even better, is your brain is incredible. The more you wear the glasses and consciously 'notice' learned colours, the more your brain will 'see' that even when you're not wearing the glasses... There's still a big 'boost' when i wear them though!
If he's a snooker fan, definitely.
If they work (and they have for the couple of strong deutans on this thread including me) then for the first time he'll be able to tell the difference between green and brown balls, and if the brown gets punted down into the pack of reds it'll actually stand out.
If they work (and they have for the couple of strong deutans on this thread including me) then for the first time he'll be able to tell the difference between green and brown balls, and if the brown gets punted down into the pack of reds it'll actually stand out.
Sway said:
I'm 37, and have strong protanopia colour blindness. I assume these pictures are different, but they're identical to me:
It sucks - I love art and photography, constant pain at work (rag statuses mean little to me!), enjoy the great outdoors, etc.
Few years ago they released glasses that could "correct" colourblindness. However, bloody expensive and with a lower than 10% chance of helping me.
This year, there's been lenses made for people like me. Slightly limited in they have a fairly strong tint, so best for outdoors or bright screens.
My Mrs bought me a pair for Christmas. I won't post the vid of my manly tears, but it was something like this:
https://youtu.be/_X0BITqcnUI
It's incredible. The colours you normal lot experience just looking around. Lucky blighters.
Bit too intense right now for extended wearing (imagine living in a muted light cave for 37 years, then stepping into sunlight...) - headache last night. So worth it though, and with more use that should diminish.
£100 from Amazon. Made by a firm called Pilestone.
They've genuinely changed my life - it's witchcraft!
Anyone else tried them?
Those images look the same to me. I'm a strong Deutan. Never bothered enough to do anything about it other than apply colourblind settings when I'm playing computer games, otherwise I start shooting allies!It sucks - I love art and photography, constant pain at work (rag statuses mean little to me!), enjoy the great outdoors, etc.
Few years ago they released glasses that could "correct" colourblindness. However, bloody expensive and with a lower than 10% chance of helping me.
This year, there's been lenses made for people like me. Slightly limited in they have a fairly strong tint, so best for outdoors or bright screens.
My Mrs bought me a pair for Christmas. I won't post the vid of my manly tears, but it was something like this:
https://youtu.be/_X0BITqcnUI
It's incredible. The colours you normal lot experience just looking around. Lucky blighters.
Bit too intense right now for extended wearing (imagine living in a muted light cave for 37 years, then stepping into sunlight...) - headache last night. So worth it though, and with more use that should diminish.
£100 from Amazon. Made by a firm called Pilestone.
They've genuinely changed my life - it's witchcraft!
Anyone else tried them?
DoctorX said:
Thanks, the Enchroma ones are a bit pricey but happy to buy if they really make a difference. They recommend the outdoor ones which may be a little odd if wearing indoors but hopefully they’ll still work.
Use the enchroma test, but the Pilestone glasses...They'll have a pink tint. The one downside as it does act like sunglasses (they've become my de facto sunglasses, above many others now gathering dust). TV brightness might need dialling up a little.
Sway said:
Use the enchroma test, but the Pilestone glasses...
They'll have a pink tint. The one downside as it does act like sunglasses (they've become my de facto sunglasses, above many others now gathering dust). TV brightness might need dialling up a little.
Thanks, those look more reasonable. The Enchroma test suggests Cx3 Outdoor lenses. Would these be equivalent to the Pilestone Type E lens?They'll have a pink tint. The one downside as it does act like sunglasses (they've become my de facto sunglasses, above many others now gathering dust). TV brightness might need dialling up a little.
GroundEffect said:
Those images look the same to me. I'm a strong Deutan. Never bothered enough to do anything about it other than apply colourblind settings when I'm playing computer games, otherwise I start shooting allies!
Couple of years on - those pics now look different to me, without wearing the Pilestones, looking on my phone screen...It took a bit of conscious 'looking', but for example the round bushes behind the house now look much richer on the top one. I assume they're brown? (still learning to understand the cool s
t I now see!)The brain is an incredible thing. Just adapts to whatever info you give it.
Dude, just buy them - you don't know what you're missing out on.
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