Anyone else colour blind?

[TWINSET]

Was just chatting to PB about colour schemes, and he'd inverted the colours on a Monster Beetle decal sheet, and to me, the inversion looked better.

Now I'm colour blind (badly) and just wondered if anyone else is, as it's just dawned on me that most of my paintjobs involve two highly contrasting colours - presumably so I can appreciate them.

So far, I got yellow/black (fave, even dive kit is this colour) black/orange, Dark blue/yellow, bright pink/black and pillar box red.

Whaddya reckon?

(beer free at the mo too!)

[rc-martin]

I'm colour blind too! Most of my cars are painted the same as on the box cos it tells you what colour they are in the instructions!![:I]

People could normally spot my paintings at school, the one with the purple sky and brown leafed green trunked trees.[]

Don't you just hate it when people find out your colour blind then they ask you what colour every object in the room looks like to you?

[TWINSET]

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Don't you just hate it when people find out your colour blind then they ask you what colour every object in the room looks like to you?

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"so what colour do you see grass as?" is always my favourite [xx(]

I found out at secondary school (11 years old) when I coloured a horse in green[]

[rc-martin]

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Lol, thats usually followed by "how do you know when to stop at traffic lights?"

[fatboyslim]

Ha-Ha!!

I'm not colour-blind but my mate is and ppl ALLWAYS ask the traffic light question!!

My mate looks at them in a really demeaning way and says 'If the top light is on i stop, if the bottom light is on i go!' they then usually reply trying to be smart 'well yeah but what if the middle light is on?' to which he replies 'oh i don't bother with that one!'

soon stope 'em asking more stoopid 'what colour is...' questions!!

[WillyChang]

What happens when you jump into a rental DOWN UNDER ?? []

[Stickman]

Hi,

I'm colour blind (not that badly though)and have to ask my wife/children/shop assistants to identify colours of things, but yes I get the "what colour is every object in the room" "how do you cope with traffic lights" question all the time. I can actually see the red and green lights so its not a problem.

But when I have finished painting my Blackfoot bodied frog metallic lime green and my KBF metallic purple, to clarify these colours weren't picked in error, I may be colour blind but I can read the labels![]

Now I'm off to paint the town fuschia

Dave

[TWINSET]

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I may be colour blind but I can read the labels![]

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That's ok if they label it - I bought a 'nice' brown once thinking it was pillar box red - meant to throw it out, but used it twice by mistake.

The great thing with the 'bold' colours (yellow, fl green, navy blue etc.) is they're easy for me to distinguish - it's when you get into 'shades' I struggle [xx(]

Still can't get clothes to match, much to the amusement of the missus

[gingerboy99]

So to someone who is colour blind, I might not be ginger?

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[simensays]

I never understood the concept of beeing colorblind - do you have problems distinguising between different colors because they appear the same to you - or is it i.e. that greenid="red"> looks redid="orange"> and blueid="green"> looks greenid="red"> and so on? In that case, I guess you only learned the wrong names for the colors at a young age? []

I might be off here, and I only ask to be enlightened, so please don't be offended anyone (my personal story is a step beyond beeing color blind [8D] and this icon might not be so cool in the future).

[TWINSET]

Hey Simen

No offence taken chap

It's more a case of 'confusion' than anything - I struggle with reds and browns when they are the same 'lightness'

It's a bit hard to explain really, but a very vibrant red will look red to me, but a darker red, like scarlet, will take a bit of concentration at best.

The other problem is when a lot of colours are together - you know when you change the paint colour in MS Paint - I'm really lost there.

In the chart below, I can't distinguish a lot of the colours the way they are there, but if I 'fill' an area with one of them, I'm usually ok

[Stickman]

This is why we like we are : http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/mens/cond_blind.shtml

our eyes are badly wired is the general idea.

I'm red/green deficient which means a colour like lilac (blue with a bit of red) can easily look blue to me if the intensity of the red is not enough for my eyes to register, but bright red is bright red, hence why traffic lights are OK for me, I'd be in trouble if they were brown and green though. And whats with khaki!? greeny brown, thanks alot!

Shades of colour cause me the most problems. There are glasses available (UK at least) to correct colour blindness but they are very expensive (£600ish a pair).

Cheers

Dave

[GhostZee]

Hi all, my dad is color blind, I have always wondered if my paint jobs on my rc cars or airplanes look as good to him as they do to me. I hate that! if I think it looks nice and bright it might look dull and plain to him:-( Is that true or does it work that way?

[TWINSET]

GZ

I don't know of anyone 100% colourblind (grayscale only) so he may well be ok with 'primary' colours, or at least vivid shades.

One thing that keeps my wife amused is to let me try and pick clothes that 'go' - get your dad to pick the next colourscheme - at worst you can laugh at him forever, but you never know - may look good!

In case you're not sure; http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

[rc-martin]

quote:I never understood the concept of beeing colorblind - do you have problems distinguising between different colors because they appear the same to you - or is it i.e. that green looks red and blue looks green and so on? In that case, I guess you only learned the wrong names for the colors at a young age?

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That is a perfect example on your original post, i had to look very closely at the screen to make out which was red and which was green, but i knew none of them where blue.

[The Slayer]

LOL [] It's coz you is ginger init......

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My friend says he is colour blind - always beats me at Snooker though [] I keep hoping he will go after a colour instead of a red [xx(]

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So to someone who is colour blind, I might not be ginger?

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[Gates Mini Racing]

You can see what colourblindness lookslike by going to www.vischeck.com if you click on "simulates colourblind vision" it lets you type in a website (by clicking run vischeck on a webpage) and typing in a page. (doesnt always work for images tho) we used to use it for getting past the firewall at school []

Just in case u wondered (im not colourblind btw)

Mike

[The Rig]

i`m not color blind but people that are need to appreciate that it is a rarity to be color blind, so the questions you get asked "all the time" are new for us, were intreagued.

im sure its the same for anyone who has a unique (wots the number per 100 that out of this are color blind ?) part of them.

so, what color is the grass for a color blind person ? [)]

Also, why is the sky blue and the grass green and the sun yellow ? []

And why do things always smell really bad, why cant they smell like pizza, hamburgers instead of sweaty feet smell or BO, i`d love to smell like a bag of haribos instead of BO [][8D]