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You’ll Be Amazed How People With Color Blindness See The World (57 Pics)
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Ever wondered what do color blind people see? To satisfy the urge to find out, there's a website called color-blindness.com that lets you take a glimpse.
Despite the name, color blindness doesn't mean that people see the world in black and white. More than 99% of all colorblind people can, in fact, see color. Because of this, the term "color vision deficiency" (CVD) is considered to be more accurate. According to color-blindness.com, around 0.5% of women (1 in 200) and 8% of men (1 in 12) suffer from some form of CVD. There are several types of colorblindness, such as Deuteranomalia (which makes everything look a little faded), Protanopia (which makes everything seem a little green), and Tritanopia (greenish-pink tones), and only around 0.00003% of the world’s population suffers from total color blindness (Monochromacy).
Bored Panda decided to test various images to see how different colors look through different CVD lenses. Here's what we found on how do color blind people see! (h/t)
Normal vision
This is how different colors look to somebody who has normal vision.
Deuteranomalia
The most common of colorblind types is called Deuteranomalia. Around 4.63% of men and 0.36% of women experience this type of color vision deficiency, many of whom don't even realize. People with Deuteranomalia see a more subdued color palette, especially when it comes to colors like green and red.
Protanopia
When somebody has Protanopia, all shades of green and red look rather faded, whereas yellow and blue shades seem largely unaffected. Only around 1% of men experience this type of CVD.
Tritanopia
When somebody has Protanopia, all shades of green and red look rather faded, whereas yellow and blue shades seem largely unaffected. Only around 1% of men experience this type of CVD.
People with Tritanopia see colors with a greenish/pink tone. It's a sporadic form of color blindness and is believed to affect only 0.0001% of men and women.
Total color blindness (Monochromacy)
Total color blindness, or Monochromacy, is the rarest form of color vision deficiency. People who have it can only see in black and white, but it's estimated that only 0.00003% of the world's population is affected by this particular condition.
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Stoplight
Rainbow Hair
It perfectly fits the phrase "Seeing the world through rose colored glasses".
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I have very mild tritanopia and I think they all look the same.... I don't know how you see it
Why did I think this would explain anything to me when I have color deficiency... (the examples that aren't protanopia and normal vision)
Protanopia makes everything look like an 80s early 90's MTV music video.
Bored Panda
The Simpsons
Of course anyone with some form of color blindness isn't seeing any of these as they are. The "normal vision" one should look to them like whichever type of color-blindness they have.
Lake View
Bouquet
Sunset
Flag Of The United States (48 stars)
with tritanopia looks like you see the world with a photo filter every time
Piles Of Spice
Forest In Autumn
Wow. Tritonopia. Looks like blossoms and spring all year round for them.
Kuala Lumpur At Night
Fruit
Must be hard for protanopia people to tell when fruit is fully ripe.
Medusa Nebula
Do people with a different color vision have the ability to see a different range of light, not just the visible range that ordinary people have as standard? For example, do they see the TV remote control lamp flashing? Do they see them when they point the smartphone's camera at them? Do they see more in the world around us than others?
Fireworks
hey, what if someone has either of the visions except normal, and sees these images, how'd these look like??
Wheatfield With Crows By Vincent Van Gogh
Colorful Houses
Soap Bubbles
This is fascinating. I love that Leonid Afremov's Melody of the Night looks beautiful in any color vision.
I agree, I've always liked that one.. In the one with protanopia, it actually looks quite similar to van Gogh, who I also like quite a bit.
Tritanopia folk literally see the world through rose tinted glasses!
I know this is a really old post, but I just discovered that my son has Tritanopia and I really wanted to know how he sees the world. I'm so glad this post was here to come back to in order to understand him better.
I just realized that this doesn't give me any representation of how colorblind people see the world as I am colorblind.
True true. Lol did you just click on it because you had a color blindness too?
honestly yes it kinda went along the lines of "OMG someone understands" lol
I must admit I too like the Tritanopia look and vibe. A pinkish-teal pastel world is less ugly than reality.
My older brother is red green colourblind... I've always wondered how he saw everything
From looking at these pictures and things he has said I believe my husband is red/green colorblind also. If we are traveling in an familiar area the the traffic lights go across rather than up and down he has problems telling what light is lit. He was tested in the military for a certain type of colorblindness that was useful in discerning things that might be difficult with normal vision. He did not have that type and I wonder which of these is closest.
An optician should be able to test him. I've known my son has some sort of colour blindness for years and at a recent eye check up I asked. She showed him a series of pictures (circles filled with dots, with numbers written in various colours) and he is quite strongly red colour blind.
My one high school science teacher was fully color blind. Also dry as a slab of drywall. And missing a finger. What a character.
Maybe it sounds stupid but sometimes it would be handy for my to see only black and white or that first type of colorblindness. Sometimes things are so bright . Sometimes I want to turn it of because it can be overwhelming sometimes. But just to be clear, I am glad that I am not colorblind to whole time. Only wish everybody could switch sight the way you can brighten or brighten a photo with photoshop.
Sensory overload is quite common and especially affects people with autism and even people with migraines. You can take a quiz online that tests the colors you are most sensitive to and even buy a pair of colored glasses that minimizes your exposure to colors that bother you. I found that changing my light bulbs from standard indoor bulbs to daylight bulbs made a huge difference for me at home because I am affected by yellow and am comforted by blue. You may have color sensitivities that you can minimize with colored glasses or changing your bulbs, too. You also mentioned scents. I have almost nothing perfumed in my house because the smells bother me. I use soap nuts (technically, it's a berry) for my laundry, shampoo, and hand soap because I found that traditional laundry products without their perfumes left my clothes smelly. I'm not convinced they clean at all and they're so expensive and just overwhelmingly perfumed.
This doesn't sound stupid at all. One thing you colt think about is getting those UV glasses for computer viewing. It takes the shade down
True. I wanted to reply the same thing. I once had to cut some shapes out of paper painted with glow-in-the-dark paint and I put my sunglasses on while doing it shortly after I realised it hurts my eyes and makes me see everything weird colours afterwards. And it worked. Sunglasses were best.
Thank you both for the tip. I am a little hypersensitive with colours and with some scents sometimes.
Did Van Gogh have protanopia?
Tritanopia is great. Everything looks so much better.
Yes but only seeing reds, pinks and blues gets dull after a while since you don't now what real color looks like.
So if you compare this to the look of recent action movies you could say that Hollywood has Deuteranomalia?
Except Marvel.
I title this one: Multi Dimensional Rendezvous. I lost count of how many photos are in this one, but I did photograph all of them. Ö¿Ö Multi-Dime...033010.jpg
Protanopia looks like Van Gogh paint's
After seeing this I actually would love getting Tritanopia.
I wonder how do they find out how these people see colour, if they never experienced the real colours...How can they tell someone that they dont see yellow properly, if yellow in their world is greenish for example..Anyone knows how this was determined in the first place?
They do a lot of tests to see if the person sees some color. For instance, there is a test with a lot of colored dots. Some of them are let's say green and form a number. If the person doesn't see that number, then they know they can't see that color. You can try at this site: http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/
Google a colorblind test and you'll see.
I kind of wish I had a palette for Tritanopia... the colors look really pretty!
Red loss in the deuteranomaly examples is greatly exaggerated. They would more appropriately be identified as deuteranopia. People with moderate deuteranomaly still see vivid reds and yellows which are easily distinguishable from browns and beiges, but they're not as saturated as in normal color vision. I would like to see new deuteranomaly examples with less processing, so that the reds and yellows are not completely eliminated.
Do people with a different color vision have the ability to see a different range of light, not just the visible range that ordinary people have as standard? For example, do they see the TV remote control lamp flashing? Do they see them when they point the smartphone's camera at them? Do they see more in the world around us than others?
Thankyou for this post, my 8yr old son has protanopia and this has helped me understand life through his eyes so I in turn can support him better.
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So as someone who has mild deuteranomoly, these comparison pictures don't look that much different, except for the tritanopia. The other two just look a little less intense than the "normal".
I don't know if I am a color blind. I always see navy blue or dark blue as black and some dark colors of green seems black on me. At some of the pictures that are given in deuteranomaly, sometimes it happens to me. Also, I often find neon colors to be hurtful in my eyes. I hope someone could answer it.
This was very interesting. My brother has protanopia and it was pretty cool to see how the world looks to him.
Looks the same to me...