Yesterday, I saw colour for the first time...

[prand]

bristolracer said:

London underground tube map

I've got mild colour blindness, though maybe quite severe as I can't really see much difference between the two pics above.

Then again I've not really had tube map issues as most lines are quite distinct. I always thought the Jubilee line was pink though!

I do have a difficult time at Yo! Sushi as the plate colours all seem grey or brown/ beige to me, so have made a few expensive mistakes over the years chasing the wrong plates!

[wiliferus]

tribbles said:

wiliferus said:

I’ve looked into these glasses (excuse the pun) but unfortunately they won’t work for me.
I’ve got strong deutan colour blindness (red/green) which I think these glasses help with. But I also have strong tritanope colour blindness which effects the blue/purple spectrum.
The manufacturers of theses glasses don’t even recognise tritanope as a condition as their glasses don’t deal with it. I’d guess these glasses would just confuse my eyes more. Apparently it’s very rare to have more than one type of colour blindness... makes me a bit speshal

I’ll just carry on living in my crazy colour blind world.

I think they do - although only one style for tritanope:

From their shop: "This lens is suitable for Tritanomaly or Tritanopia that affects blues and yellows."

https://pilestonecolorblindexperts.com/products/pi...

And in the product description: "Correcting for blue-yellow and red-green colour blindness, however, can make many more colours become apparent."

Little bit more expensive than some of the other lenses though...

That’s interesting, I must cough to being lazy and not looking at the Pilestone website before I posted. Certainly enchroma don’t deal with trit.

As much as I’m curious, I’m not sure being Colour blind bothers me that much. Also, I think the blue tinted glasses will make me look like some form of sex offender.

[timberman]

scottydoesntknow said:

JustALooseScrew said:

I wonder about my sight as I don't see massive differences between those two pictures.

Take the test

https://enchroma.com/pages/color-blindness-test#te...

I just took the test and not surprised I'm strong protan,

I've known I'm colour blind since being a young lad, it runs in the family, my grandparents both had it so bad they never got a colour telly,

Never heard of anything that can correct it so will have to take a look, I've never really felt it's been a major issue but I'm now intrigued to see what I've been missing all these years.

[borcy]

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people on here are, of one type or another, colour blind.

[bloomen]

I got a 5/13 on that test posted.

Though those two pictures are visibly different I can't say they're different enough for the upper one to move me more than the lower.

I'm a mild deutan but I've never noticed any problems from it. I've never quite figured out how the colour blind realise they're colour blind much of the time. There must be shades I can't see but since I don't know any different and can still tell them apart it's never occurred to me to try to address it.

Edited by bloomen on Friday 27th December 12:30

[JustALooseScrew]

Hi Sway,

any chance you could do this test without and then with the glasses on and let us know if they make any difference?

I just did it and got 8/13 which is worse than I remember it being when done with the actual cards.

Thanks

The Moose said:

Try this one...
https://pilestonecolorblindexperts.com/pages/colou...
I just did this and got 1/13...then my wife got 13/13. I can not wait!

Edited by The Moose on Friday 27th December 00:58

[wizzard67]

PositronicRay said:

I've always been a bit colour blind, maybe I'm getting worse.

Are the prescription too?

Sorry if this has already been answered, I'm interested in them too.

Enchroma offer prescription lenses - https://enchroma.com/pages/rx

I've sent a message to Pilestone asking them if they do prescription lenses as well. I'll post here when I get a response.

Both companies also offer the clip-on style lenses to go over prescription glasses (I'm not a fan of these though).

HTH

[Swampy1982]

What a lovely thread!


That's all! Thanks for sharing OP

[Grayedout]

Great test. Diagnosed as red/green colour blind many years ago and the online test says PROTAN Severity:Strong!

Might have to investigate those lenses.

[ooo000ooo]

We only discovered one of my sons was colour blind when, at around 15, i was chopping some green peppers and red chilies in the kitchen. He asked if he could try a bit of raw pepper.
He then asked which were the peppers,
I figured he wasn't used to seeing them raw or being prepared from fresh so told him the peppers were green.
He then grabbed a large section of chili and popped it in his mouth before i could ask what he was doing

[tribbles]

borcy said:

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people on here are, of one type or another, colour blind.

I can't remember what our Human Factors department told us, but I think it's something like 1 in 8 for white Europeans (most prevalent), and goes down for everyone else.

[anonymous-user]

borcy said:

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people on here are, of one type or another, colour blind.

In reality it doesn't really make much difference in life, which is why the genes have survived. I knew i was as my Grandad was and as it is hereditary. It's not a disability.

[Sway]

tribbles said:

borcy said:

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people on here are, of one type or another, colour blind.

I can't remember what our Human Factors department told us, but I think it's something like 1 in 8 for white Europeans (most prevalent), and goes down for everyone else.

Differs massively between genders too.

1 in 20 men I've heard, and 1 in 1600 women.

There is actually an evolutionary benefit - I can see through camouflague seemingly better than most, and have better night vision. Rapage and pillage is therefore my Olympic sport.

[Sway]

JustALooseScrew said:

Hi Sway,

any chance you could do this test without and then with the glasses on and let us know if they make any difference?

I just did it and got 8/13 which is worse than I remember it being when done with the actual cards.

Thanks

The Moose said:

Try this one...
https://pilestonecolorblindexperts.com/pages/colou...
I just did this and got 1/13...then my wife got 13/13. I can not wait!

Edited by The Moose on Friday 27th December 00:58

This test I struggled with massively - 2/13 without, then only an extra 3 right with.

However, the lighting where I am really isn't great, and I'd not acclimatised myself to them, just plonked them on my face - usually allow ten minutes or so to adjust.

On the enchroma test, I went from getting virtually nothing, to "normal colour vision" in better lighting, and after acclimating.

[tribbles]

Sway said:

tribbles said:

borcy said:

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people on here are, of one type or another, colour blind.

I can't remember what our Human Factors department told us, but I think it's something like 1 in 8 for white Europeans (most prevalent), and goes down for everyone else.

Differs massively between genders too.

1 in 20 men I've heard, and 1 in 1600 women.

There is actually an evolutionary benefit - I can see through camouflague seemingly better than most, and have better night vision. Rapage and pillage is therefore my Olympic sport.

Yes, you're right. It was 1 in 8 white European males.

[bloomen]

Sway said:

There is actually an evolutionary benefit - I can see through camouflague seemingly better than most, and have better night vision. Rapage and pillage is therefore my Olympic sport.

I have some African cousins who are all quite staggeringly colour blind.

When they were in the army they all got jobs sitting in helicopters pointing out who to kill as the camouflage stuck out a country mile to them.

[Sway]

So, have been to two garden centres now - and the local-ish marine aquarium specialist.

Wow. Too much to mention, but some highlights.

Pastels - lilacs, mauves, pale purples, creams. Simply beautiful in the delicacy of the colour, yet somehow vibrant.

Oranges - jesus titty fking Christ. How bright? Amazing.

Reds - my word. They're so what punchy, aren't they? Spent ten minutes in the car park looking at a tomato red Mini, deep red Fiat 500L, and mid red Skoda Fabia!

Berries - they stand out a mile, don't they?!

Most surprising thing are blues. Always my favourite colour - but indigo/cobalt/ultramarine are just so much more than I ever realised. A blue Alfa hatchback, and mid blue Porsche supplied the surprises. There's a Mercedes deep blue (almost chrome like effect) paint I adore - really looking forward to seeing that with the glasses on.

Oh, and red rear lights really stand out, don't they!

As for the marine aquaria/corals/fish. I nearly cried. That's going to be a very expensive addition! I've always really loved the cheap corals/fish - yet now I know why the pricy ones are so pricy!

[Sway]

bloomen said:

I have some African cousins who are all quite staggeringly colour blind.

When they were in the army they all got jobs sitting in helicopters pointing out who to kill as the camouflage stuck out a country mile to them.

I genuinely don't know if there's a (brightly coloured!) parrot heading my way...

[bloomen]

Sway said:

I genuinely don't know if there's a (brightly coloured!) parrot heading my way...

Nope. Straightforward factoid. They were tested when they were conscripted and their sight was regarded as so abnormal they weren't eligible for plenty of roles like engineering and definitely no piloting. Then someone remembered how useful that abnormality could be in certain circumstances in a nice bush war.

[JustALooseScrew]

Sway said:

So, have been to two garden centres now - and the local-ish marine aquarium specialist.

Wow. Too much to mention, but some highlights.

Sway, I am absolutely genuinely chuffed to bits for you!

It must be effing amazing for you, this story has really warmed my heart and cheered me up from what has been a thoroughly miserable week.