Woo! Today we have light! and… Artsy stuff. Hm Light and color and all these cool old deceased grey haired people. While we were getting lectured in the definition of light and color, particle theories and electromagnetic fields, i thought about color blindness. How that actually work? All I know is that people are not able to see certain colors of the spectrum so what they see is missing a couple shades of a certain color. So….. Hm.. here we go.
Color Blindness and Spectrums!
So what causes color blindness? Apparently it is genetic and found mostly on men. But color blindness can also occur because of eye,nerve or brain damage which really does suck. Colorblindness is called Deuteranopia in the fancy scientific language. At the most we would think that these people would have a disadvantage but on the other hand, they have an advantage. Colorblind people can perceive camouflage much better than regularly sighted people.
When light sensitive cells in the retina stop responding correctly to certain wavelengths of light. Weird how the eyes work. Most common color blindness is red-green which is caused by the x-linked recessive gene.
And to finish the day off, I was drawing during class. This was the first product.
Of course it looks like no fun right? And we are in an art|Sci camp thingy. So this is what the final outcome was.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/colordeficiency.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8833/coloreye.html
http://www.preventblindness.org/eye_problems/colorvision.html