Transcript Say hello to this pretty lady. You know what makes her prettier? Being color blind. Let’s use her to simulate some colorblindness real quick. As you probably know, since,
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Wiki on Color Blind GlassesWiki on Color Blind Glasses
In addition to starting my MSc last month, I’ve also been spending some time cleaning up the terrible state of color vision articles on Wikipedia. Today I published a new
A Cure for the Colorblind: Roadmap to Gene TherapyA Cure for the Colorblind: Roadmap to Gene Therapy
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A paper was published at the end of August in the journal BRAIN that shows possibly that the first case of colorblindness has been cured. This comes after 13 years
Can cops be colorblind?Can cops be colorblind?
TRANSCRIPT One thing we can probably agree on, is that police should be more colorblind… but while you may be thinking colorblind in the figurative sense – less racist cops
The Science Behind the Ishihara TestThe Science Behind the Ishihara Test
Footnotes FOOTNOTE 1: CONE MOSAIC (5:07) The small changes in luminosity curve are often due to differences in the cone mosaic. The retina is made up of the four photoreceptors
My least favourite traffic signMy least favourite traffic sign
Another short up this week. There is a traffic sign that means “give way to oncoming traffic” often seen on single-lane bridges that in europe looks similar to the sign
How a made-up color blindness infiltrated the internetHow a made-up color blindness infiltrated the internet
Footnotes FOOTNOTE 1: ANOMYLIZE While this is not a real word, it is supposed to be derived from “-anomaly”. The proper spelling should therefore be ANOMALIZE, not ANOMYLIZE. Yes, it’s
New FAQ and Tools pagesNew FAQ and Tools pages
Last week, I put together some new content for the website. I was introduced to Adobe’s new color accessibility tools and needed to highlight them somewhere, because they are an
My favorite way to explain colorblindnessMy favorite way to explain colorblindness
Last week I made a short for YouTube that I have been thinking about for awhile. The absolute quickest way to describe what is happening to colors for the colorblind…