I’m depressed for the colorblind, right now!

Hey gang, I was just baggin around on the internet..  and now I’m really kind of bummed out right now!

For whatever reason, I decided to google ‘what color blind people see’ in a google image search – and holy shit is it depressing! Specifically the ‘red green’ colorblindness…  I was just curious, and damn it’s terrible! I legitimately bummed myself out looking at the conceptual pictures, and I’ll post a few of them here so you know what I’m talking about. I just got really bummed out – I don’t know what to say! I think I got the idea because I saw a video earlier today of a new type of eyewear that corrects that issue – turns down the saturation of the colors they can see so that they can actually distinguish the colors they can’t pretty cool – worth looking up. And while I’m glad that there is a type of cure that seems to work – MAN! just so bummed looking at these pictures!

A simulation from the Neitz lab of what colorblindness looks like, with normal color vision on the left and red-green colorblindness on the right.

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