Colour Perception!

[ohnoitsabear]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

Woot! 4, bitches!

On-topic: I think it's really odd that, even discounting the various possible ways that brains interpret color, the colors one person sees are going to be slightly different from the ones somebody else sees, due to different people being able to see and differentiate colors better than others. It's even stranger when you consider that colors don't really exist, it's just our brains interpreting different light waves that enter our eyes.

Colors are weird, man.

 

[aba1]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

EDIT: Well since everyone's sharing their scores mine was a 0, muwahahah you can't beat perfect! Well I guess chadachada123 wins for tieing.

I got a 3 which is not bad considering I am falling asleep as we speak so my eyes are really tired. I think I could likely get a 0 in the morning.

 

[Catfood220]

I'm slightly disappointed that my eyesight is fine, I want to be able to see more colours than I'm supposed to be able to, its not fair *sulks*

Actually, shouldn't complain, almost everyone in my family needs glasses for some reason and I have 20-20 vision, its tempting fate to whinge to much.

 

[MiriaJiyuu]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

EDIT: Well since everyone's sharing their scores mine was a 0, muwahahah you can't beat perfect! Well I guess chadachada123 wins for tieing.

Thanks for posting this. I'm near sighted and often get the feeling I'm seeing things wrong, scored 0 on this test though, glad to know at least something's working there

 

[Robot Number V]

Spoiler: Thought this might be relevant.

Pretty cool stuff. Kinda wish I could see the other wavelengths of light.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

I got 3, lower being the better. Feck yeah!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

Well my score is 209, which means my colour perception is shite.

Look on the bright side, the grey/brown modern games probably look a lot better to you than they do to me.

I can still see colours, I just have difficulty distinguishing certain hues, mostly greens and blues.

 

[Rule Britannia]

I'm colourblind, though I'm not the typical red green colourblindness. I don't know exactly what type of colourblindness I have, but I know (after people tell me) I frequently fail to distinguish blues and purples as well as browns and reds. I intend to ask my optician (optometrist) what type of colourblindness I have the next time I go. (I also have crappy arse vision, my contact lenses are -4.50; if that means anything to anyone)

 

[Spoonius]

I took that test and got a 4. My sister got a 61 though, so the floor is now officially green until she can beat my score.

I also thought I'd link this for anyone interested: Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/colortherapy/].

One of my brother's mates is red colour-blind, it makes me a little uneasy knowing that I probably look like Shrek to him...

 

[Eleuthera]

I'm colourblind, though I'm not the typical red green colourblindness. I don't know exactly what type of colourblindness I have, but I know (after people tell me) I frequently fail to distinguish blues and purples as well as browns and reds. I intend to ask my optician (optometrist) what type of colourblindness I have the next time I go. (I also have crappy arse vision, my contact lenses are -4.50; if that means anything to anyone)

I also have no idea what that type of colourblindness is called, but I have the same type. Curious about that test though will have to try it during my break.

For other people who are curious what colourblind people see, there's an iPhone app called colourblind vision (or something similar) that had my friends laughing at what the world looks like to me pretty hard...

 

[lacktheknack]

Spoiler: Also ...

If the concept wasn't so dumb, I'd call that a brilliant bit of trolling.

 

[lacktheknack]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

EDIT: Well since everyone's sharing their scores mine was a 0, muwahahah you can't beat perfect! Well I guess chadachada123 wins for tieing.

I pulled a perfect as well. Not fair, considering that I could not tell the reds apart on the blue-red scale and mostly guessed.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Colour vision varies a lot between animals. You know how hunters wear bright orange? That's so they can see each other to avoid shooting each other, but deer and so on (most placental mammals, IIRC, with the notable exception of primates) don't see colours the same, so they can still work as camouflage. Also why tigers are orange, though they can't see it either.

On the other hand, marsupials have colour vision that is comparable to primates.

The practical upshot of this is that if you are hunting lions, you can wear certain bright orange clothes. If it turns out that it's in fact a marsupail lion, take it off right away or it will get you killed.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Here's a test for anyone curious: http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

OP, you need to have you and your friends take it and whoever gets the lowest score is right about your floor.

According to that I have great color vision, which is good since my normal vision is shit so at least I can tell the different blobs apart from their colors when I'm not wearing glasses.

EDIT: Well since everyone's sharing their scores mine was a 0, muwahahah you can't beat perfect! Well I guess chadachada123 wins for tieing.

Scored 41; 10-15, Male; sooo, not bad then?

Apparently I suck at differentiating light purple hues, as well as different types of orange hue.

If my score is good, then that gives me even more reason to try out Viva Pinata.

 

[Tallim]

I have this weird thing where each of my eyes sees colour differently. It's not a massive striking difference and the colours it does affect are sort of interpolated when I am using both eyes like normal. BUT it's something I only notice when the lighting is natural light.

Monitors/tv emissions look the same as does anything lit by electric lighting.

Tarmac in sunlight is most striking difference, in one eye it looks black as per usual (or is it?) and in the other eye it's brown/red coloured.

 

[MammothBlade]

Got 41 in the colour IQ test, so about average.

That UV aspect fascinates me.
Certain animals and insects can see it, but we can't.

You know, the night sky looks pretty awesome in UV. Special cameras take photos of it, and change the wavelength to one we can see, resulting in stuff like this.

Spoiler: Also ...

Can't see 5 at all. Well that's nothing I didn't already know.

 

[Spoonius]

Fascinating stuff... true colours, found here [http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusions.html#Eclipse%20of%20Titan].

Allows you to see "true" cyan, green and red respectively, colours that computer monitors cannot reproduce and that are rarely produced by natural objects. The chart on the right of each image demonstrates the limits of a computer monitor...

INSTRUCTIONS: Pick a test. Keep your head completely still and stare at the white dot within the circle on the left (2 minutes or more for best results). Then move your head backwards slowly.

The opposing receptor cones within your eye will be fatigued and you'll cut out colour pollution.

 

[Spoonius]

Optical illusion, found here [http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/the-forbidden-colors-our-eyes-cant-see/].

Allows some people to see new "impossible colours [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_colors]", similar to the way the human brain perceives pink for example. The colours will be a combination of red/green and blue/yellow respectively, containing visible traces of both primary colours involved but not necessarily brown or green.

INSTRUCTIONS: Pick either the red/green or blue/yellow test. Cross your eyes and overlay the two colours, and a new colour may appear (hasn't worked for me though).

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

That UV aspect fascinates me.
Certain animals and insects can see it, but we can't.

You know, the night sky looks pretty awesome in UV. Special cameras take photos of it, and change the wavelength to one we can see, resulting in stuff like this.

Spoiler: Also ...

Heh, I'm apparently latently homosexual....
Nothing Latent about it, I am in fact Bi.

 

[Spoonius]

I'm pretty sure that's a troll test.