As some of you know already, I have a profound fascination with everything about Color Vision.
I have researched for a long time about how our perception of color works, how different species experience colors and the problems that can arise in color vision, especially because I have a character in one of my stories that is fascinated by these matters too.
This character was born with black and white vision, even though her species enjoys a Trichromatic color vision similar to the one most of us experience... her eyes had all the cells necessary for the regular vision, but they lacked a special liquid that works by activating those cells.
She obtains the Trichromatic vision when her eyes are fully awakened at her seventh birthday, but this thread is more about a documentary that I watched recently and is called No Such Thing as Color.
You can watch the full, nine minutes documentary at Youtube:
[video=youtube_share;AUsups6Mk3I]http://youtu.be/AUsups6Mk3I[/video]
No Such Thing as Color describes the life experiences of colorblind Musician Evans Forde. It helped me a lot to understand what color blindness feels like, and I was surprised to discover that the experiences of my character are quite similar to what Evans tells us about.
It seems to me that the color simulations featured in the documentary represent Deuteranopia (green blindness, which is very common), but there are other forms of color blindness, too.
I find it fascinating that Evans comes to the conclusion that there is really no such thing as color in our world. It does not exist out there, separated from our eyes... he believes that colors exist only inside our minds, an artifact of perception that is unique to every person.
What do you think of colors? Would the world be very different if we all had Dichromatic eyes? What does color mean to you, in your life?
I have researched for a long time about how our perception of color works, how different species experience colors and the problems that can arise in color vision, especially because I have a character in one of my stories that is fascinated by these matters too.
This character was born with black and white vision, even though her species enjoys a Trichromatic color vision similar to the one most of us experience... her eyes had all the cells necessary for the regular vision, but they lacked a special liquid that works by activating those cells.
She obtains the Trichromatic vision when her eyes are fully awakened at her seventh birthday, but this thread is more about a documentary that I watched recently and is called No Such Thing as Color.
You can watch the full, nine minutes documentary at Youtube:
[video=youtube_share;AUsups6Mk3I]http://youtu.be/AUsups6Mk3I[/video]
No Such Thing as Color describes the life experiences of colorblind Musician Evans Forde. It helped me a lot to understand what color blindness feels like, and I was surprised to discover that the experiences of my character are quite similar to what Evans tells us about.
It seems to me that the color simulations featured in the documentary represent Deuteranopia (green blindness, which is very common), but there are other forms of color blindness, too.
I find it fascinating that Evans comes to the conclusion that there is really no such thing as color in our world. It does not exist out there, separated from our eyes... he believes that colors exist only inside our minds, an artifact of perception that is unique to every person.
What do you think of colors? Would the world be very different if we all had Dichromatic eyes? What does color mean to you, in your life?
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