Poll of the Day > The new Windows update has colorblind correction

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Sweet. Now at least I can see things the way they're supposed to look in my screen.

I think I even suggested this to them through some feedback form a while back.

For people who don't understand how this is supposed to work, imagine having headphones with very little bass, and then putting on an equalizer that boosts the bass.

And holy shit guys... I wasn't even aware that this shade of green was so commonly used. Very weird to see, though I've seen it before.

https://www.google.com/search?q=turquoise

What the fuck...

Your version of roses are much uglier than mine. Mine is a very dark red. People are like... red now. My people look like your corpses. I think I prefer the way people look to me. Yours are just... weird.

My version of starry night is much better than yours. Like, why is there green in the sky now?

I'm amazed by turquoise now though. Normally it looks like dog vomit.

I'd like some kind of fine-tuning tool to get it just right. I don't think it's strong enough, actually. Atm I can turn it on and off, giving me a good sense of before and after.

Edit: Without the filter, all birds but the bottom right look the same to me.
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/08_20_2012_color-vision-budgie.jpg
With the filter, they're all different.
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Every game I look at is amazing looking now.

It's almost like the art was designed for other people's eyes.

Looking away from the screen makes me kind of sad. Like, oh, my eyes are still wrong, the whole world is really drab.
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not sure if turquoise is really a shade of green. it's more like extremely pale blue. I guess it technically has a tiny bit more green in it than blue, but it doesn't seem very green to me.

Yellow posted...

Edit: Without the filter, all birds but the bottom right look the same to me.
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/08_20_2012_color-vision-budgie.jpg
With the filter, they're all different. Sightly.

top left is a normal budgie, bright green and yellow (with a small blue fleck)

top right and bottom left are very similar; either they're identical, or the top right is a bit darker. they both seem to have no green and are mostly just yellow or light brown.

for bottom right, what was bright yellow is now bright white, and what was bright green is now cyan or turquoise. I guess maybe blue was added to everything? yellow + blue = white, and green + blue = cyan.
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Sahuagin posted...

not sure if turquoise is really a shade of green. it's more like extremely pale blue. I guess it technically has a tiny bit more green in it than blue, but it doesn't seem very green to me.

Yellow posted...

Edit: Without the filter, all birds but the bottom right look the same to me.
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/08_20_2012_color-vision-budgie.jpg
With the filter, they're all different. Sightly.

top left is a normal budgie, bright green and yellow (with a small blue fleck)

top right and bottom left are very similar; either they're identical, or the top right is a bit darker. they both seem to have no green and are mostly just yellow or light brown.

for bottom right, what was bright yellow is now bright white, and what was bright green is now cyan or turquoise. I guess maybe blue was added to everything? yellow + blue = white, and green + blue = cyan.

Green and blue are technically part of the same color group. Thats why some civilizations dont recognize either and instead have one color grue that encompasses both.
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Sahuagin posted...

bright green is now cyan or turquoise

I never had any clue what cyan or torquise really are.

Sahuagin posted...

top right and bottom left are very similar; either they're identical, or the top right is a bit darker. they both seem to have no green and are mostly just yellow or light brown.

That's exactly how I see it with the filter on.

Instead of every single color being offset, every color is how it would appear to a normal person, except the ones I physically cannot see are completely overblown. This is fine, because very few things are overblown.

Like, a rose's red is now so intense on a monitor that the whole thing is almost a solid red. Everything that isn't overblown is normal person vision.

Every single monitor should have this built in. 5% of the population is nothing to blow off. Well, maybe it is

Anyone that wants to see what I'm using, search "color filters" in the start menu, I'm using the deuteranopia setting.
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Yellow posted...

deuteranopia

are you green color blind? why would being green color blind affect how you see red? I see examples of deuteranopia that show that red turns into a weird muddy brown, but why should that be? shouldn't red still be red if you can't see green?

incidentally, a programmer I once worked with (one of the only other programmers I've ever worked with) apparently had full color blindness (no cones whatsoever). the guy just saw black and white. I would try to get him to terminate network cables, but he'd remind me he can't see the difference between the wire colors.
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hmmm...? not sure why your post went away. that did make sense.

colorblindness is like equal parts crappy and fascinating
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Sahuagin posted...

are you green color blind? why would being green color blind affect how you see red? I see examples of deuteranopia that show that red turns into a weird muddy brown, but why should that be? shouldn't red still be red if you can't see green?

Maybe I do see red normally, then. My green just blurs with red, and I get the two mixed up often.

I remember taking one of those tests and seeing nothing. I showed it to everyone in the house, asked if there was anything there, they all said yes, that it was extremely obvious.

Sahuagin posted...

hmmm...? not sure why your post went away. that did make sense.

colorblindness is like equal parts crappy and fascinating

I thought I knew the answer, looked it up and I was wrong. I thought red/green cones were the same, but I don't think that's true.

It's funny you say you worked with a programmer, I can never tell a warning and an error appart unless I go into the settings and swap the color for something else.
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Yellow posted...

Maybe I do see red normally, then. My green just blurs with red, and I get the two mixed up often.

I remember taking one of those tests and seeing nothing. I showed it to everyone in the house, asked if there was anything there, they all said yes, that it was extremely obvious.

in this image (who knows if it's really accurate; note that this is approximate since I notice it doesn't even look the same on two of my monitors), the top goes from the left: red up to about 620, orange up to about 590 or 580, yellow right around 570ish, green-yellow up to about 550, green from 550 to 500, cyan around 490/480, various blues from 480 to 425, and then purples till the end.

the bottom is browns to around 620ish, kind of brownish orange around 600, fading to white (instead of yellow) around 570, fading to a sort of peach color up to 500, a faint wight-blue around 490 instead of cyan, and then various blues to the end with no purples.

(so basically, brown instead of red, orange somewhat similar, white instead of yellow, peachish instead of green, pale blue instead of cyan, blue sort of normal, but blue instead of purple. actually sounds a lot like the bird picture you posted.)

almost none of it matches top to bottom except maybe orange at 600 and blue at 450.

Yellow posted...

It's funny you say you worked with a programmer, I can never tell a warning and an error appart unless I go into the settings and swap the color for something else.

I go to great lengths to color my code a very particular way, but even with all my fancy colors he just saw it more or less black and white. he would always say that the main thing he can notice is that the contrast varies.
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My son is red/green colorblind. I kind of figured he would be since my dad was so I carried the gene. I knew he was when he drew Mario and colored his skin green.

I bought him those expensive colorblind glasses but he won't wear them.

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