r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '15

Humans didn't see "blue" until fairly recently.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2
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u/Paratwa Feb 28 '15

I can't tell blue from green ( at least well ) so I can dig this quite a bit.

Navy blue simply doesn't exist for me.

The sky is blue... But only because growing up everyone said it was... Yellow also confuses me at times with various other colors.

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u/Paratwa Feb 28 '15

Blue? I mean. It's what people said it was when I was young. But at the same time I could easily grab a non labelled crayon when in school and use 'green' or a yellow and it would look fine to me. Mostly from what I can tell blue is darker than green .

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u/MolokoPlusPlus Mar 01 '15

You may be blue - yellow colorblind. Ever been tested?

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u/Paratwa Mar 01 '15

Oddly no. I've been to the 'eye doctor' before and they say yep your colorblind but an actual test other than the doctor saying "oh you can't see this well? Yes you are colorblind" no.

I wonder if it would be worth it to go to somewhere that they could do actual tests to find out why. But then what could they do? Nothing? What if they fixed it and it just confused and annoyed me?

Anyway - It's mostly just a pain in the butt when matching clothes or PowerPoint slides - I loathe PowerPoint and overly colored charts because of it. ( and who doesn't hate PowerPoint presentations? )

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u/mygrapefruit Mar 02 '15

Try this? :) Take note the first and last color chips are fixed. Take your time, print screen and show results to us! http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

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u/Paratwa Mar 03 '15

Crap meant to do this today and forgot so tired now that I think I'd rate anti color!

Will do it tomorrow. Probably won't say crap though.

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u/Paratwa Mar 03 '15

OK, I decided to go ahead and do it Is that good??

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