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If those Chroma glasses that supposidly let color blind people see color actually worked they would have already built one for normal sighted people to see an extra dimension or two of colors as well... They didnt cause they dont actually work.
@freemo@qoto.org Like being able to see UV light? Or even infrared light? Or do those already exist?
No, I am talking about more color discrimination within the visible range.
So much like a red-green color blind would normally see red and green as the same color, but with special glasses on (if they worked) they would appear as different colors. But they arent seeing UV or infrared.
Similarly if we could make humans into tetrachromats (equivelant to having one additional color discriminating receptor) then two colors that appear the same (say they both look red) would appear as two different colors, red and some new color you had never seen before. You arent seeing a new part of the spectrum, you just have high color discrimination.
@freemo@qoto.org Ah. I have the suspicion I already have a higher color discrimination than the rest of my family... it's bloody tiring. I see a difference where they do not. :P
@trinsec ahh yea if you can identify similar shades as different, but they seem very similar to you still then your not a tetrachromat.
A true achromatic would see two colors as distinctly different when to others they would appear the same or very similar.
You would be seeing colors other people cant see, but you wouldnt be aware of it and those new colors wouldnt have special names to you or would even be recognizable as colors others cant see.
@freemo@qoto.org So how would people even figure out they'd be tetrachromatics if they wouldn't really be aware that they see more colors than the average person can? Are they even within the realm of the 16M colors of a monitor (it's 16M right?) or is a monitor too limited for even them?
@trinsec because they would think normal people are color blind "those are totally different colors!"
@freemo@qoto.org Heh. Or they think they're getting ghosted... -.-
Heh, where can I do such a test? :P
@trinsec you could only do such a test in person. Monitors are designed for trichromats so while they can be used to take tests that ide tify thr colorblind a monitor would be useless for ide tifyibg tetrachromats.
Youd have to work with real world colors. For example if two purples loom ide tical to a normal person, when i reality one purple is a red-blue color mix and the other is just pure purple, assuming you had a fourt purple receptor then these would lok
Ok like different colors to you but the same to everyone else
@freemo@qoto.org Yeah, I suspected as such.. but what do I look for to figure out where to do such a test?
@trinsec im not sure. I did a test myself once when i discovered this stuff by accident.
I noticed under a led that two colors that looked identical, under the light of an led looked like completely different colors (one black the other light). If someone were tetrachromat they would be able to see some of these as different colors even under white light.
@freemo@qoto.org Oh, I didn't mean I'd be a tetrachromatic. Just that without being one but still a high color discrimination present it's already bloody annoying enough. Imagine how much bigger the headache would be if one actually is one.
Any color test, especially the gradient based one, I 100%ed it. So I know I'm good. Good enough at least. My dad's color blind and we argue often, heh. Nowadays I just ghost him with 'well, you're colorblind, so no sense talking to you about colors!' :P