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Ishihara – Short Film – All in Dots
- Posted on April 11th, 2012
All I can say: Amazing! Yoav Brill created this short film back in 2010 as his graduation film at Bezalel, the Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. The story is half-autobiographical. I am a color blind, and so are two of of my brothers, so the film is based both on my and their experiences, [...]
Subway Maps for Colorblind People
- Posted on April 4th, 2012
Paul Wynne, an occasional colorblind underground user of the London subway, says What is a straightforward glimpse at a map for most travellers there, is a nightmare of trying to separate similar colours for me,… This topic is not new to colorblind people. Also in 2007 a group of Norwegian Students thought about Improving the [...]
Camouflage Test for (Non)-Colorblind People
- Posted on March 16th, 2012
Many people heared about the colorblind army men, who were chosen specifically to spot camouflage. There was a short report in the Time Magazine in the 1940′s about those Color-Blind Observers for National Defense. But is it really true, that colorblind people can spot some patterns better than people with a broader color vision? Unfortunately [...]
Genetic Test for Color Blindness
- Posted on December 2nd, 2011
After almost 100 years since Dr Shinobu Ishihara published his first color blindness test based on pseudoisochromatic plates, we are definitely looking into a new area of color vision testing. Based on the very promising tests of Jay Neitz and his team, where colorblind monkeys started to disinguish certain colors, the company Genevolve is planning [...]
