Stupid color deficiency.

By: RuthlessNate Mood: bored Date: 08/24/2008 23:37:55 Music: None

So, I was thinking I'd try to put in some custom colors on my homepage, but I was looking at the palette and realized I can't tell what 90% of it is.

 I have what you call a color deficiency. In normal color vision, people have an equally balanced number of red, blue and green receptor cones in their eyes. In true color blindness, the person completely lacks one of the three types of cones, generally red or green, making the two indistinguishable. I, on the other hand, have all three types of cones, but their numbers are not balanced. You could say that my sense of color is somewhat muted in comparison to regular color vision.

 I saw a rainbow in the distance driving home today, and though I can see red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet just fine, I can never see all six colors in natural rainbows.

I often wonder how much more vibrant the world would be if I had normal color vision.

 Hmm. Oh well. Stupid genetics.