Color Vision

Artists, Lie Detectors, and Gamers - This Week in Colorblindness

Colorblind Series Unveiled By Artist

William Lehman's "colorblind series" is part of his initiative to get back to basics with only using primary and secondary colors.

Link: William Lehman's Colorblind Series

Come For The Lie Detector Test, Stay For The Colorblind Test

This week in 1941, the student newspaper of the College of William and Mary, "The Flat Hat," reported

The Psychology Department held an Open House in Phi Beta Kappa Hall from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. where students could participate in studies and watch movies from the Yale Institute of Human Relations. Experiments included a lie detector test and a nine-hole coordination tests. Students could also take I.Q. and colorblind test. The event was a success, as most of the student body attended and stayed late.

Party on!

Link: This Week in Flat Hat History, April 15

Colorblind Gamers Left Behind By Designers

Let's hear it for Tim McDaniel, a developer for Aspyr, who himself is colorblind and has good practical advice on how to design games for colorblind users.

Link: Unseen Problem-Colorblind Gamers

The Army Of Four

Guest post by Zack Ybara

It's been said that all dogs are totally color blind, and that they see the world in black-and-white.

 

Not so, says Dave.

 

Dave is the fourth member of the Army Of Four, a real-life pack of four Siberian Huskies who blog about their adventures, thoughts, and interests. Dave and his friends, Stormy, Amber, and Zim, frequently take time to keep us up to date with trends, our troops, and their friends around the world.

 

Dave, or The Deeve, as he likes to be called sometimes, happens to be a Guide Dog For The Color Blind. He helps Mom (a biped) pick out fabrics, tiles, and pavers, and is something of a design consultant in Mom's Quilt Studio. Just recently, they’ve expanded their repertoire to include handbags, and guess who the first bag was named after?

 

Read about The Deeve Bag, and stories from the rest of the Army Of Four, here. Woo!

Best posts from March, 2008

• Can Colorblind Individuals Make It In Art?
• Funny Slogans Wanted
• Free White Paper: What Teachers, School Nurses and Parents Should Know About Students Who Are Colorblind
• Teaching the Young and Color Blind
• How We See the World

Can Color Blind Individuals Make It In Art?

Guest Post by Kristine <lizbeth_laila@yahoo.com>

 

Visual art is heavily dependent on color, and while monochromatic art forms are on the rise, it's hardly fair to limit color blind individuals to only one niche of visual arts. Still, their condition will make it considerably difficult to produce paintings that can be fully appreciated by art critics with perfect vision.

So can color blind individuals make it in art?

 

Sure, but they can improve their odds with the Eyeborg. Christine Finn writes about this camera-and-laptop device that lets individuals to perceive color with sound, allowing color blind artists to produce works of art that can rival those produced by artists with normal vision.

 

Read about the Eyeborg in the Underwire Blog here.