I see the value in this system but I'm not sure how does it actually improve my day to day in the sense that, me not being able to see colors doesn't have that big of a negative impact on my current day to day. (I wanted to be a pilot so being colorblind does have a negative impact sometimes)
A few years back I purchased a pair of ChromaGen color glasses that allow me to see the color red. That was a WTF moment.
The world made sense right then and there: Warning signs, skin, tomatoes, coke can, etc, etc. Is amazing how different (and greenish) the world is to me.
To be honest I don't use them to much: every time I wear them for long, the word is full of colors and once I take them off I return to this green(ish) reality and my mood changes immediately. I feel down right away.
I think I read somewhere that there are around 16.000.000 colorblind people in the US alone. I think this is a market that would pay big money to be able to see properly (I payed 1200 euros for a pair of glasses to just help me see the color red).
It's not for making the colors nicer to look at for you but to avoid you putting on clothes which doesn't match in colors and look really off-putting to the non-color-blind (e.g. red pants, pink T-shirt).
According to the talk (which derived from real case studies), we (in Portugal) have a population of 10% with one of the several variations of color blindness.
In my 1st job (on a small IT department), i had a colleague (from the electronics department) which had a variation of it. Dealing with electronics, means in some form, dealing with color codes, like colored cables, LED's and other instruments, which means he had difficulties dealing with it. It was not very known, and i understood why after the talk, in which there seems to be a stigma on color blinded about them being recognized as such.
So, although not perfect, it made sense to me as solution to allow people being independent. I live in front of one of the metro stations, in which this code is already applied (like in many other countries, our metro rails are identified by a letter and a color).
In our hospital urgencies, we use a braced color to identify the urgency of the patient. Green, blue, yellow, IIRC.
Like real blindness, there may not be cure, but there are solutions to improve a person's life quality, even if it just helping a [color blinded] father being able to pick baby clothes for his son, not "daughter" :-)
I'm at an entrepreneurship conference where the project owner (a designer) is an invited talker and i had the pleasure of also talking to him directly.
This system is already being implemented, not also here in Portugal (on subway/street signs, product labels, ink resellers and many more) but across Europe and Americas (Brasil), apparently.
Since i'm a developer, i immediately considered smartphone and possibly tablet applications and i hope we will brainstorm it soon :-) i found it a very exciting and valuable project, and a simple and effective solution to a complex problem (color blindness).
Augmented reality applications where the 1st thing to come to mind, which would be awesome! And there are more simple applications that may help not only color blinded people to learn the code, but also non-color blinded people to get over an apparently serious stigma [bullying] against color blinded people.
I was hoping for a site where I could finally enter a hex code or something and find out what color it is. I find it very hard to differ dark blue and purple and dark yellows and bright greens.
There is a small program for Windows (being developed) to sample and code a screen color sample, but much more could be done. Can you imagine the stress that receiving a corrected document (word processor) in which the sections to correct are red/yellow, to a color blinded secretary? It's real, there are case studies that relate these problems fron kids to grown ups.
[+] [-] fabiandesimone|14 years ago|reply
I see the value in this system but I'm not sure how does it actually improve my day to day in the sense that, me not being able to see colors doesn't have that big of a negative impact on my current day to day. (I wanted to be a pilot so being colorblind does have a negative impact sometimes)
A few years back I purchased a pair of ChromaGen color glasses that allow me to see the color red. That was a WTF moment.
The world made sense right then and there: Warning signs, skin, tomatoes, coke can, etc, etc. Is amazing how different (and greenish) the world is to me.
To be honest I don't use them to much: every time I wear them for long, the word is full of colors and once I take them off I return to this green(ish) reality and my mood changes immediately. I feel down right away.
I think I read somewhere that there are around 16.000.000 colorblind people in the US alone. I think this is a market that would pay big money to be able to see properly (I payed 1200 euros for a pair of glasses to just help me see the color red).
I wish someone would find a solution to this.
[+] [-] silvestrov|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] zemanel|14 years ago|reply
In my 1st job (on a small IT department), i had a colleague (from the electronics department) which had a variation of it. Dealing with electronics, means in some form, dealing with color codes, like colored cables, LED's and other instruments, which means he had difficulties dealing with it. It was not very known, and i understood why after the talk, in which there seems to be a stigma on color blinded about them being recognized as such.
So, although not perfect, it made sense to me as solution to allow people being independent. I live in front of one of the metro stations, in which this code is already applied (like in many other countries, our metro rails are identified by a letter and a color).
In our hospital urgencies, we use a braced color to identify the urgency of the patient. Green, blue, yellow, IIRC.
Like real blindness, there may not be cure, but there are solutions to improve a person's life quality, even if it just helping a [color blinded] father being able to pick baby clothes for his son, not "daughter" :-)
[+] [-] gte910h|14 years ago|reply
Many things that have issue with color independence rotate freely.
[+] [-] zemanel|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] 0x12|14 years ago|reply
#79
Cool!
Maybe when color finally goes bust they can get the domain, it seems like a much more useful application for such a domain.
[+] [-] zemanel|14 years ago|reply
This system is already being implemented, not also here in Portugal (on subway/street signs, product labels, ink resellers and many more) but across Europe and Americas (Brasil), apparently.
Since i'm a developer, i immediately considered smartphone and possibly tablet applications and i hope we will brainstorm it soon :-) i found it a very exciting and valuable project, and a simple and effective solution to a complex problem (color blindness).
Augmented reality applications where the 1st thing to come to mind, which would be awesome! And there are more simple applications that may help not only color blinded people to learn the code, but also non-color blinded people to get over an apparently serious stigma [bullying] against color blinded people.
[+] [-] za|14 years ago|reply
The shapes which currently add up to a square instead need to add up to something with a rotational symmetry of 1.
[+] [-] Thomaschaaf|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jeffreyparker|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] skittlebrau|14 years ago|reply
edit: apparently based on this (which has a worse color picker but probably better results): http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color
[+] [-] zemanel|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Raphael|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] zemanel|14 years ago|reply