G.I. Joe Classified Series

NORM said:
Color interpretation in general is a mystery to me. Like even for the non-colorblind, how do I know that the way I interpret BLUE is the same way another person interprets it? As an art teacher, I have had colorblind students and they have explained to me some of their limitations, their inability to see the differences between blue and violet being that they are similar in value, being unable to see the difference between red and green, also being similar value (darkness or lightness of a color). Like if you took a black and white photo of something red next to something green, they’d appear a very similar shade of gray. There are some colors that the colorblind have less trouble seeing like yellow, or seeing the difference between yellow and blue.
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Bang on. It's so hard to ever explain to other people 'what I see' because.. how do you do that without a frame of reference? If we have no shared perception, I CAN'T tell you how I see X or Y. But I once heard a really good, and presumably accurate, explanation; colourblind people see the world with the brightness turned down. Crank the brightness on your TV down a few notches and see if colours start to be a little more similar, some colours may look like other colours, and you'll lose the highest brightest elements in the world -- that beautiful vibrant flower may still be blue, but it isn't as vibrant as it was. Instead of it being BLUE, maybe now it's just blue like ten other things in the same scene.



NORM said:
@Damien, have you ever tried on those color spectrum correcting glasses? The ones that show you how true colors appear to the non-colorblind? I’ve seen videos of people putting them on and their minds are blown or they get really emotional at seeing the full spectrum of colors all of a sudden.
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Nope. I'm aware of them, but I've never tried them. For one, they're fairly expensive. But the bigger reason is maybe silly to people that don't understand but; I don't know if I want to know what I'm missing.
You can't wear those corrective glasses 24 hours a day. Which means at some point you've gotta take them off and go back to your disability. And if what you see is amazing, and you see all these beautiful colors and all this vibrancy that you're missing out on, you have to look at it knowing you have to go right back. You can get this perfect little moment, but you can't live in that moment. Intellectually, I understand that the world is more beautiful and vibrant than I have ever been able to see it. But do I want the actual living memory of that in my head all day, every day, while I'm trying to live my life? Maybe I'm coming off as dramatic, but that sounds horrible.

Also, those glasses don't work for all types of colourblindness, so there's always the chance you're just wasting your money/time as well.
 
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