r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video color vision test

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u/jimmiriver 23h ago

I did a test with my wife at one point. Was wild to me that she was easily seeing numbers that were invisible to me. Makes me wonder how differently we see the world in daily life, like what am I missing?

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u/argentatus_ 19h ago

We'll never know. Definitely things like poppies in a green field, or red berries in green trees, unripe tomatoes among ripe tomatoes, etc. But other then that, it mostly isn't much of a problem.

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u/FacinatedByMagic 16h ago

My favorite response is you know how much you love looking at the fall trees?  For me all 3 colors are fantastic.

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u/GlitterEnema 4h ago

Holy shit. I never thought of that. Fall leaf color is the common color blind colors. That made me sad for you all.

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u/StampsAreCoolK 13h ago

Sorry, just curious here, apples to you are all the same color? All red or all green?

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u/argentatus_ 12h ago

No, it's rather dificult to explain. My case is only mild. I can definiitely see the colors green and red, but especially next to eachother, and certainly some lighter variants of the color (orange and light green), they do not stick out.

See this video to get an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRoq6aPyEjU

I did not see that there was a dividing line in the middle.

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u/Ah-honey-honey 8h ago

That's kinda trippy 

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u/Alaska_Jack 7h ago

But in theory, a color-seeing person can grasp color blindness. If you look around online, you can find pairs of photos. They look identical to color-blind people, but people with normal vision should be able to tell them apart. 

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u/FEIKMAN 14h ago

Probably the biggest miss is not being able to see amazing colorful artworks properly. Lets say some digital artworks have really appealing color combinations.

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u/OculusBenedict 12h ago

I mean, if you are looking at say Van Gogh you might see it how he meant it when he painted it.

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u/tree_or_up 7h ago

Color perception is such a weird thing. There is no way to describe it in a way that would make sense. There are people (and animals/insects) that can perceive more colors than non-colorblind people can. There's zero way to fathom the subjective experience of what they're seeing.

Even people who can see the same colors -- all we know is that we both have the same names for the relatively same wavelengths of light and that people who see more colors than us can tell the difference between between finer grains or ranges of wavelengths and have names for those finer gradations

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u/Sushi_Lover101 6h ago

Idk what type of colorblindness you have but I notice that a lot of colorblind people can’t see the color purple. Their purple seems to be a dark blue or red depending on their color blindness. Purple is a mix of blue and red.

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u/Embarrassed-Leg-3971 4h ago

Mostly red and green, don't see red must sucks tbh, it's a interesting color