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How do some people not realize they're color blind

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Ah, pretty easily, for most, its just shades of colors or colors in certain spectrums that overlap. Its not like you have very many people who could look at a stoplight and mistake the colors (even if they are in a certain order).
 
Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:
I bet there are people here that don't even realize they're color blind.

Can anyone not see this number (or whatever it is)?
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35 and 57.
 
notBald said:
Games are never a problem?
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Games can be a problem at times, but its rare. Stuff like Bubble Bobble where it's color matching can be hard, but if the colors have a shape like in Bejeweled I can just go by that.

Though when I first got my Xbox 360, I hooked up the component cables wrong on the back of my TV. The whole output had a red tint to it, but I had no idea. Didn't realize my mistake til a friend came over and asked why Halo was so purple.
 
I'm partly green/yellow color blind

I can see the 57 vaguely , edit: oh, is that what the second one says, I can't make out the N , the K and the H properly

It's weird since yellow, green , blue , red (and between stuff like orange or purple )are very distinct colors to me that look nothing alike, but halfway shades involving green are a lot harder for me to see for some reason.

It's part of why I resent games like bf3 (and a lot of other modern games)

They no longer have any contrast between the enemies and the background , then they go and blur everything and add bloom and lens flares
I hate color grading with a passion ,fuck you you fucking pseudo artists who use that shit, learn to make a scene look appealing and coherent without that lazy ass filter.

edit : I never had a problem playing bubble bobble btw, but some matching games with like 15 different colors to match can be a pain in the ass.
 
notBald said:
Games are never a problem?
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I can't think of any games off the top of my head that have been a problem.

Actually, I can think of one recently that I had a bit of trouble with. Traitor in Terrorist Town (Garry's Mod) gives you a tiny little red crosshair when you're a traitor...it is not nearly as easy to use as the bright green one.
 
SneakyStephan said:
I'm partly green/yellow color blind

I can see the 57 vaguely , edit: oh, is that what the second one says, I can't make out the N , the K and the H properly

It's weird since yellow, green , blue , red (and between stuff like orange or purple )are very distinct colors to me that look nothing alike, but halfway shades involving green are a lot harder for me to see for some reason.

It's part of why I resent games like bf3 (and a lot of other modern games)

They no longer have any contrast between the enemies and the background , then they go and blur everything and add bloom and lens flares
I hate color grading with a passion ,fuck you you fucking pseudo artists who use that shit, learn to make a scene look appealing and coherent without that lazy ass filter.

edit : I never had a problem playing bubble bobble btw, but some matching games with like 15 different colors to match can be a pain in the ass.
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Doesn't BF3 have a color blind mode? I know BF4 has like 3 different options for Color Blind people.
 
Don't worry, when you're older you'll realise that colour is just a form of stimuli that exists because of the way the brain (through the eyes) interacts with the wavelengths of photons that enter the eye after photon absorption, emission, and selective reflection or from Rayleigh scattering, interference, diffraction, or refraction.
 
I'm red-green colorblind. I see red and green fine, but put certain shades of them next to each other and I sometimes can't tell them apart. have trouble distinguishing colors in some puzzle games. The yellow and green pieces in Puzzle Fighter are especially hard to deal with. Coloris gives me trouble on the more advanced stages, too.

It's never been a huge deal for me, but it's cool that game devs are more aware of it these days.
 
jiji said:
I'm red-green colorblind. I see red and green fine, but put certain shades of them next to each other and I sometimes can't tell them apart. have trouble distinguishing colors in some puzzle games. The yellow and green pieces in Puzzle Fighter are especially hard to deal with. Coloris gives me trouble on the more advanced stages, too.

It's never been a huge deal for me, but it's cool that game devs are more aware of it these days.
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Are we the same person?
 
Jedi2016 said:
No, he sees them as green. At least, throughout his life he's learned to call that color "green", just as you learned to call the color you see on grass "green". There's no guarantee that what you see as green and what I see as green are the same, but we can both agree that grass is green.
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By age 5 he should have heard both "The grass is green." and "The sky is blue." and realized that those two things look the same. Similarly I'm sure he encountered a box of crayons and realized that the "Blue" and the "Green" crayons look remarkably similar, or the number of colors on the box doesn't jive with the number of colors he sees, but does jive with the number of crayons in the box.

I have a color blind friend and he figured it out on his own at an early age all by himself. I don't see how anyone could not know.
 
I actually see different shades of green and red out of each eye, but it's extremely subtle most of the time and only really noticeable on particular colors if I sit there and alternate closing one eye or the other. Noticed it in high school when I looked at my green backpack with each eye for some reason.
 
On the Ishihara test I can only get 1/10. In those colour wheels, I see nothing at all. =(

I only found out I'm in the worst category of colour-blindness when I tried for the police and was told to piss off.

It doesn't affect my everyday life though, so meh.
 
Welp, my 3-year-old son keeps identifying green and blue wrong. Is he colorblind? Any blue-green colorblind tests specifically for kids?
 
there are a few tetrachromats that see more colors because they have an extra cone type in their eye. To them we are all colorblind.
 
How do some people (women only) not realize that they are tetrachromatic?

They can't describe to us mere mortals how are the colors they see. Man, it must be beautiful. It's as if we were color blinded compared to them.

Anyway, I can't blame anyone for them not realizing they're color blind, after all, it's the only way they can experience sight. The same way a tetrachromatic person can't realize they see more colors than most of us.

ricochetguro said:
So true, they belong in a special hell with the left-handed.
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Oh yea? Well, SCREW YOU TOO (on the left handed thing) (and not really, but you're on my list of not-nice people)

blame space said:
What if what I saw as blue is what you see as orange? It's All relative.
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One could think so, until the physiology of retinal cells was studied.
 
Compared to Mantis Shrimp, birds, or the millions of women who have 4 distinct cones in their retinas, we're all color blind. Sorry.
 
I found it quite amusing that all the colourblind options in the Battlefield 4 menu looked more confusing to Jeff and Vinny of Giant Bomb. They talk about their issues with certain games regularly, it's an interesting consideration for game designers that rarely crosses my mind.
 
SquiddyCracker said:
Nope.

I got tested as a kid at school, and told by the nurse that I shouldgive uup on any dreams I might have of becoming an astronaut or pilot.

Bitch.
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Yeah, I remember getting a letter saying I probably should be a pilot or electrical engineer. I guess because of the color bands on resistors?

Fuck that Bitch . . . got a computer & systems engineering degree (which is basically a combo of electrical engineering and comp sci).
 
Mudkips said:
By age 5 he should have heard both "The grass is green." and "The sky is blue." and realized that those two things look the same. Similarly I'm sure he encountered a box of crayons and realized that the "Blue" and the "Green" crayons look remarkably similar, or the number of colors on the box doesn't jive with the number of colors he sees, but does jive with the number of crayons in the box.

I have a color blind friend and he figured it out on his own at an early age all by himself. I don't see how anyone could not know.
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*sigh*

Colorblind people will not confuse the grass and the sky's colors. Not unless they're dichromats, which is quite rare. Most colorblind people are simply color deficient. Even if someone was a dichromat, they'd use brightness to distinguish colors. The sky would never look like grass.
 
I'm colourblind and that fuck the colorblind dot thing is pretty obvious (then again, maybe it's supposed to be).

It's only ever been an issue for me in certain games. Hexic is the most recent offender, as even in colourblind mode when the bombs come I'm fucked. Green, yellow, who knows.
 
Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:
I bet there are people here that don't even realize they're color blind.

Can anyone not see this number (or whatever it is)?
plate%209%20%20%20%20%2057.jpg
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Noticed the 57 right away, stared at it a little longer and I can definitely see the 35, although it doesn't work out since the green isn't continuous for that to be the case. (Basically you would have to get red mixed up with green to see the full 35)
 
TheExodu5 said:
*sigh*

Colorblind people will not confuse the grass and the sky's colors. Not unless they're dichromats, which is quite rare. Most colorblind people are simply color deficient. Even if someone was a dichromat, they'd use brightness to distinguish colors. The sky would never look like grass.
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Sigh all you want, they'll still see a marked discrepancy in the transition between colors in a color wheel, a rainbow, a box of crayons, etc.
 
Yeah if the 35 jumps out at you then you have some colour blindness issues even if you still see the 57. However I think most people claiming to see the 35 knew to look for it and don't see it as one colour.
 
I knew a dude in college, a senior in design, who didn't know he was colorblind until we had a mini-debate over a magenta pantone swatch having a purple cast. He couldn't see the difference.
 
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