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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago (11 children)

And red/green color blindness isn't less colors, you get more shades of brown.

Which sounds shitty, but invaluable for hunters.

My dad legitimately didn't know what other people saw for "red" but he could spot a deer in the middle of the woods like it was neon yellow.

I believe the downside to tetracheomacy is less rods because the extra cones are taking up more space. Which I think translates to really bad night vision.

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same with my dad. He said that the military liked red/green colour blindness for spotting camouflaged stuff.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This link is very interesting. Interesting for people that are colorblind, and interesting for people that are not.

[–] Serpent@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

I could see 3 out of 4 of them but I'm not colour blind...

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's fun!! I am not color blind and was able with a lot of work to sort of see some of them. The easiest is the second one just squint and unfocus if you wanna try. The first one I couldn't get to work at all though

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I am colour blind and the first one was the easiest to see by far. My wife couldn’t make it out even when I showed her where the lines were.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Great, I'm too color blind for the normal tests, and not color blind enough for this apparently. Fuckin dots man.

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