I hate being colorblind

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Am I the only one confused by this post? You say you're color blind, but you're seeing purple out of gray? I thought being color blind was the absence of color?

Maybe "color confused" is the correct term, but "colorblind" is a widely-known and accepted term.

 

[Savij]

Men are more prone to have one or more receptors skewed (on wavelengths). This leads to them perceiving colors slightly differently when this occurs. It's different than color blindness, and usually not noticeable on solid primary colors. It has more to do with perceiving colors at the fringes when that set of skewed receptors is indicating more green (or red or blue) than it should be. Women are less prone to this problem since they have that extra x chromosome to override the bad gene.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Descartes
Am I the only one confused by this post? You say you're color blind, but you're seeing purple out of gray? I thought being color blind was the absence of color?

no, that would be just plain blind. 😛

rarely is someone ever 'color blind'. and yes, the typical idea of color blindness (properly referred to as color deficiency), is not being able to see some colors, or some aspects of certain color shades and thus thinking they are a different color. it's extremely rare for someone to have black and white vision, I think it's on the order of either one in hundreds of millions or even rarer. i don't feel like digging up that, but nonetheless its hard to find someone that screwed up in the eyeballs, and those cases very likely be optic nerve damage and not necessarily genetic. genetic cases tend to just have faulty color vision, with the vibrancy of colors being severely muted, at least according to a few photos that display how a color deficient person views a scene compared to a normal person. both photos look the same to me, obviously showing I have that specific type of color deficiency, but the photo specifically showing my type appeared quite a bit less vibrant to a friend of mine when compared to the other photo. that saddens me, and I want it fixed because the day I got it fixed would probably make me feel like I am on some kind of insane drug to be able to see those vibrant shades. how I long to see vibrant colors, and all of the colors at that. 🙂

 

[uclaLabrat]

Being color blind is how I got the nickname "pinky".

I swear my clothes were white when I left the house. Turns out, they had changed on me in the laundry. In the 7th grade of all years.

Being colorblind sucks. I mix up a lot of colors.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

Geez, the first thing that jumps out at me is, "Eww, JPEG compression artifacts."
The muted green looks like it's got a touch of blue, too. Let's see what GIMP says.

A histogram in GIMP says that the gray image is more green than red, and more red than blue. So it would look slightly green.

The muted green is mostly green, followed by blue, and then red. So whaddaya know, here, there actually is some green in the gray test patch. 🙂


Here you go, I made these, which are close approximations of the average values of the JPEG images:
Grayish
- Red: 123
- Green: 126
- Blue: 118

Muted Green
- Red: 98
- Green: 115
- Blue: 102

Gray
- Red = Green = Blue = 127

 

[BabaBooey]

That would suck....🙁

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
pics? (but not on bbzzdd, its blocked at work for me)

kproxy.com

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Don't you mean 'gray'? 😛

I thought "grey" and "gray" were interchangeable. But then FF is underlining "grey", so maybe not.

Maybe "grey" is only for names.

Meh, was just piggybacking off of this recent thread. Wanted to see if anyone got the connection, heh.

Wow I had no idea my thread got over 100 votes. I forgot to check up on that. Thanks for the link.

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

Charcoal and faded olive green to me.

 

[videogames101]

I can say tho, that i often don't get my eyes focused correctly on vision tests... lol, they say there are 2 circles but i see 3, because i'm focusing way beyond the plate

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

To me it looks like grey and I don't know what the hell to call the other one.

 

[paulxcook]

Updated OP with pics of purple/gray pants.

 

[Jeff7]

The pants look like black jeans, but I suppose I see how they might look purple from the right angle. But it'd be a really really dark purple. GIMP's histogram of a few crops of just the pants from the vertical perspective show them to be bluer than anything else, with green second, and red last.

Something else to consider - fluorescent lighting will screw with colors, if you've got any of that around. My one roommate had a jacket that was brown under incandescent and natural light. Under fluorescent light (5000K temp, CRI of 82), it looked dark green. He could go from one room to the other and the change was easily visible.

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
The pants look like black jeans, but I suppose I see how they might look purple from the right angle.

I see faded black jeans. Grey & purple aren't too off with the right light.

 

[foghorn67]

If I stare at a lot of text with no double spacing on a white screen, some of the lines would look slightly purple-ish. Re-focus and it goes back to normal.

The lines in the threading/weaving could do this when looking at the cloth. gah, I hope this makes sense.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

Geez, the first thing that jumps out at me is, "Eww, JPEG compression artifacts."
The muted green looks like it's got a touch of blue, too. Let's see what GIMP says.

A histogram in GIMP says that the gray image is more green than red, and more red than blue. So it would look slightly green.

The muted green is mostly green, followed by blue, and then red. So whaddaya know, here, there actually is some green in the gray test patch. 🙂


Here you go, I made these, which are close approximations of the average values of the JPEG images:
Grayish
- Red: 123
- Green: 126
- Blue: 118

Muted Green
- Red: 98
- Green: 115
- Blue: 102

Gray
- Red = Green = Blue = 127

This really, really depends on white balance. and even if you could just re-balance it using the eyedropper, you would have to figure on how much ambient light is fighting the flash.
(i have not seen the images yet. Image hosting sites are blocked at my work.)

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

that's what i'm talkin' about. yet, the bottom one is classifed as a green.

I can definitely see the green in the bottom one.

 

[eakers]

Those pants look faded black to me.

I can't tell the difference between some purples and blues. I've had full on arguments with people about a colour before. I don't even think I am colour blind though, I think I jsut always thought that colour was purple even though its apparently a shade of blue.

 

[paulxcook]

In the pictures I agree they look more black or gray. Maybe it was just the fluorescent lighting. Except I only have incandescent bulbs at home and it still looked that way. *shrug*

 

[Chryso]

You are color blind. (I am too)
This gives you license to wear whatever kind of tacky clashing stuff you want to and get off scot free. Enjoy.

 

[CZroe]

Poorly-designed games and software really bug me (color blind myself). Ichinisan is also, but he hasn't been around in a while.

 

[joesmoke]

your shoes need to be polished

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

that's what i'm talkin' about. yet, the bottom one is classifed as a green.

i think it looks green

 

[Chaotic42]

After looking on my color-calibrated monitor and pulling several dozen pixel samples in Photoshop, I am prepared to say that the pants in that picture are grey.

 

[Mo0o]

Are you any specific medication? Some medication can cause distorted color vision.

You can also take a look at some of those colorblindness charts.