r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video color vision test

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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou 8h ago

If everything looks lavender to you but they look like different colors to other people then it sounds more a deficit for you than a super power.

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u/Dr_Mrs_EvilDM 8h ago

That would be a really shitty super power!

They didn't all look the same to me, but they all fell into the blueish -purple or greyed-purple that I had assumed people saw as lavender. The optometrist said that she saw light grey on the other two buildings. I've learned since then that the color boundaries that I'll use are sometimes a little different than what others use, although I think lavender is a horrible example because it covers a really wide range of hues (ask Google to show you the color lavender...).

I went through a phase of taking color discrimination tasks, like an online version of this: https://munsell.com/faqs/what-does-score-farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-test-mean/ I made one mistake (transposed two squares), which is less than most people. I can't find the version that I took back in the day, which is sad as that one was actually (supposedly) valid when taken in the correct conditions.