This Color-Blind Man Created An App That Lets People Understand And Cope With Color Blindness
Color blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world. It is estimated that around 300 million all around the world suffer from color blindness. This vision deficiency can be caused by genetics or various diseases such as diabetes or multiple sclerosis. The most common form of color blindness is the inability to see green and red properly, but there are different types and different severities of this condition. While it is hard to understand for most people how color blindness even works, some people who have it often struggle to realize it too, if their condition is not that severe.
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Created by a colorblind person, Color Blind Pal app allows people with vision deficiency to differentiate between colors better and recognize them
Luckily, there’s an app that helps people to understand and cope with this vision deficiency.
Vincent Fiorentini, who has been red-green colorblind his whole life, has created an app that serves two main purposes: the first one is to help people with regular vision ‘experience’ color blindness and the second and most important one is to help those who suffer from it see things better.
The first photo shows colors perceived by the regular vision, the second one how colors are seen by a colorblind person and the third one shows how the app helps them
The app is called Color Blind Pal and it works by shifting colors of the objects so a person can differentiate between colors better.
The app also helps a person to determine and name the color. It can be also used by people with normal vision to simulate many types of color blindness.The app is available on both Android and iOS.
So far, the app has been rather well-received. It has more than 300 reviews on Google Play store with a 4.2 rating.
Here’s how people reviewed the app
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Share on FacebookForget fruits and vegetables. need it to be good enough to identify colors in wiring harnesses. That would be worth money to me.
Amen! I hate to think how much time I've spent tracing red, green, and brown wires. It always happens when you're by yourself and can't ask anyone.
Load More Replies...This is interesting. I have a color blind problem but only very slightly. I wish there were contact lenses that could correct this. I embarrass myself sometimes.
This happens to me frequently. I'll be going on about something "blue" only to be met with puzzled looks and questions... "You mean the purple one?"
Load More Replies...Related: For people who do web development, get the free Chrome extension "Spectrum". It allows you to see what your page will look like to people with various types of colour blindless. If nothing else, it helps just to be aware. Colour can be a super useful way to visually differentiate buttons, data, etc - but it should never be the only way. :)
I have a "diachromatic" color deficiency, which is the most common form of 'color blindness. And it involves the red-green portion. Like most diachromatics, I never realized I was color deficient until my junior year in college, when I went to take my Air Force ROTC physical. It eliminated me from getting my Air Force contract commission. This was in the late 60s, and as a result I was drafted shortly after graduation. I had to go through infantry OCS in order to receive my commission. As a graduate student in physical anthropology I researched almost everything dealing with this problem and even wrote my master's thesis on "Relaxed Selection and color blindness". The whole thing is very interesting, and is almost certainly due to early man's ability to hunt successfully. For instance, a color deficient hunter can spot a camouflaged predator, or prey, easier than those without color deficiency.
Continued: This is almost certainly the reason why 'Relaxed Selection' worked to hunt game better and protect themselves from large predators. In fact, in WWII, color blind people were used to study maps and locate German camouflaged targets with accuracy. Individually, I can see any color, including reds and greens. But together I have a slight deficiency. Incidentally, the number above in the "Ishihara" test is a "5", and it is blue. I used to be a little depressed until I learned that this is natural selection at work, and an advantage to the human species. Whenever I hunt in a group, I am the first person to spot prey that are in hiding.
Load More Replies...Forget fruits and vegetables. need it to be good enough to identify colors in wiring harnesses. That would be worth money to me.
Amen! I hate to think how much time I've spent tracing red, green, and brown wires. It always happens when you're by yourself and can't ask anyone.
Load More Replies...This is interesting. I have a color blind problem but only very slightly. I wish there were contact lenses that could correct this. I embarrass myself sometimes.
This happens to me frequently. I'll be going on about something "blue" only to be met with puzzled looks and questions... "You mean the purple one?"
Load More Replies...Related: For people who do web development, get the free Chrome extension "Spectrum". It allows you to see what your page will look like to people with various types of colour blindless. If nothing else, it helps just to be aware. Colour can be a super useful way to visually differentiate buttons, data, etc - but it should never be the only way. :)
I have a "diachromatic" color deficiency, which is the most common form of 'color blindness. And it involves the red-green portion. Like most diachromatics, I never realized I was color deficient until my junior year in college, when I went to take my Air Force ROTC physical. It eliminated me from getting my Air Force contract commission. This was in the late 60s, and as a result I was drafted shortly after graduation. I had to go through infantry OCS in order to receive my commission. As a graduate student in physical anthropology I researched almost everything dealing with this problem and even wrote my master's thesis on "Relaxed Selection and color blindness". The whole thing is very interesting, and is almost certainly due to early man's ability to hunt successfully. For instance, a color deficient hunter can spot a camouflaged predator, or prey, easier than those without color deficiency.
Continued: This is almost certainly the reason why 'Relaxed Selection' worked to hunt game better and protect themselves from large predators. In fact, in WWII, color blind people were used to study maps and locate German camouflaged targets with accuracy. Individually, I can see any color, including reds and greens. But together I have a slight deficiency. Incidentally, the number above in the "Ishihara" test is a "5", and it is blue. I used to be a little depressed until I learned that this is natural selection at work, and an advantage to the human species. Whenever I hunt in a group, I am the first person to spot prey that are in hiding.
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