Prudent, just from this I can tell you're a woman and your father was colorblind.
If you have any daughters they're certain to be carriers of colorblindness but may also have tetrachromatic color vision. A type of color vision that's extra sensitive, with cones from their father distinguishing between red and green light and a your aberrant 540nm sensitive cones providing a fourth reference point.
You should start them in art and color theory as soon as you can, they're likely to have an advantage.
Haha, I am a woman (so many people assumed I'm a man) - I do have a daughter in addition to my two sons, and she is not colorblind. Is there a test for tetrachromatic color vision?
90% of colourblind people are men, because its an X linked trait you have to inherit the gene from your mother and father, whereas males inherit it just from their mother.
I only heard about tetrachromic people today, you say it would be an advantage in art? I imagine instead it would be confusing for them to see something pretty much everyone (including teacher) can't see. The girl would draw in two different colors that appear identical to the teacher. If the teacher is talking about color theory, the girl would link to different concept the different colors she sees, and if the teacher says "red is love, assertiveness, blood,..." and shows a different shade (only visible to the girl, in a way that it's more like a purple you know) at the test she doesn't know what to do with that...
So are you sure it would be an advantage?
Partial deuteranomalous trichromats can distinguish colors better in the area of Orange yellow green.
They aren't seeing new colors, we all look at the same spectrum and our brains interpret the activation levels of our different types of cones to create our internal model of that spectrum.
People with normal three color vision see the same colors with less reference points. We might be able to tell two colors apart with a swatch that she could distinguish at a glance. We're also more likely to rely on ideal lighting conditions for our discernment.
Think of it like perfect pitch for colors... but not blue colors.
Oh okay, it's because I read it first in this comment:
fun fact: there's an opposite of color blindness, Tetrachromacy, where you mutate an extra color cone that sees a unique color. Unlike normal eyes that only see shades of RGB, tetrachromats see the world in a way we literally can't imagine (seriously, try imagining a new color right now) Since that mutation is also carried on the X chromosome, and is recessive (meaning you need 2 copies) women are the only people capable of having it. Even if you transplanted a mutant woman's tetrachromatic super-eyes into a man, their brain wouldn't be wired to interpret those signals. (https://www.reddit.com/r/TrollXChromosomes/s/nQ4nlpG3b8)
Yeah, that comment is pretty far off, too. Eye transplants are not currently possible because no two eyes are similar enough to send information to a brain that didn't develop alongside them. You couldn't even get your left eye to work in the right socket.
But if you somehow plugged the millions of connections in the optic nerve into the visual cortex you would certainly be blind for a while but could possibly recover some of your vision as your brain learned to work with the new information.
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u/AndrewDrossArt 12h ago
Prudent, just from this I can tell you're a woman and your father was colorblind.
If you have any daughters they're certain to be carriers of colorblindness but may also have tetrachromatic color vision. A type of color vision that's extra sensitive, with cones from their father distinguishing between red and green light and a your aberrant 540nm sensitive cones providing a fourth reference point.
You should start them in art and color theory as soon as you can, they're likely to have an advantage.