Interesting to find out that you lecture on colour vision. I suffer from
deutan / red-deficient colour blindness.
Have you any direct experience of the colour-enhancing glasses by Enchroma?
https://enchroma.com/pages/technology
I'd love to try them but over here in the UK we're not so well served by
distributors or easy try-before-you-buy options,
Jez
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 17:35, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I heard about tetrachromacy on the radio this afternoon as I drove home
> from work – very interesting. At first I thought that some members of the
> List might be endowed with such as “super power” but it occurs only in
> women and I’m not sure if Tina would lay claim to such a colour
> perceptiveness. There again, those with this capability are normally
> unaware of it, it seems.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy>
>
> It’s interesting to me because I lecture on vision as part of my job, and
> to day I’ve spoken only about rods and cones (and photo-sensitive ganglion
> cells), never about the 3-colour properties of most people’s cone cells.
> And now I know that there are people with 4-colour cells.
>
> Chris
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