(January 24, 2017 at 1:17 pm)pool the great Wrote: I'm colorblind and I also don't know which is which color. Essentially I don't even know what I don't even know.
Well one thing you could do... I don't know if it would help or not but it looks like it might... is, just as a fun experiment and maybe to be able to deduce something from it; most paint packages allow you to manipulate colours in the image by RGB value. So even if you can't see a particular colour... as in distinguish it from another... you could still set it by its value instead. Then you'd have something to work with in deducing what range of colours you can't see/distinguish. For instance if you took an average image and gradually removed the red component from the whole image... which you can do usually at the slide of a slider... would the two images look exactly the same? or if not... if you could perceive a difference in the images at some point, that might tell you something about the extent of the colourblindness. I don't know if this would work... it's just an idea... but it sounds reasonable enough and I'd like to try it myself to have an idea of how a colourblind person might see the world (ie an image with the red component removed) and maybe be able to settle a long standing, but friendly and jokey, dispute with my dad about the colour of a piece of furniture... I maintain he's colourblind, he maintains I am but if this works, maybe it could prove it one way or the other by who perceives a difference in the colours or not, with the RGB values to prove they're different.
