takewithfood - 2015-03-21
Do these just compress or shift wavelengths into a part of the spectrum they can see/differentiate? Seems misleading.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2015-03-21 My thoughts as well. If you're lacking the color receptor, there's no way you're going to "see" that color in the conventional sense. But with the glasses, you can at least discern it's there by up or down shifting the frequency.
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memedumpster - 2015-03-21 We don't have "color" receptors, we have "wavelength" receptors. Your red and mine may be different perceptually while we still can say we see "red" and are not blind to "red." If there are a dozen nanometers difference in our receptors, we wont see it the same, but we'll see it.
Philosophiziationarianism! That'll be ten cents, please.
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Oscar Wildcat - 2015-03-21 OK, I just went to the site. Seems they are notching out specific bands of light to purify the resulting light striking the receptors. Very clever. Do have a look.
http://www.enchroma.com/technology/how-it-works/
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Oscar Wildcat - 2015-03-21 The difference between what you describe in the 90's and this is the degree of precision one can lay out the diffraction lens patterns. Apparently with a large number of strategically choosen narrow notches you can get a bigger effect than with just a single broad notch.
I'd imagine looking though the glasses might be like increasing the saturation on an old color CRT monitor. The primary colors becoming more intense at the expense of the more subtle hues and shading.
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Hooker - 2015-03-21
Of course I know what it's like to be colourblind. I watch American movies.
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Scrotum H. Vainglorious - 2015-03-21
But how can color be real if our eyes aren't?
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GoneGirl - 2015-03-21
This is wild.
I have a friend who was born with no cones in his eyes, just rods - it's a rare genetic thing. He's very light-sensitive. I really wonder if these would help him out; the website doesn't seem to directly address his issue.
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infinite zest - 2015-03-21
cool
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TheSupafly - 2015-03-22
As curious as I am to see what red and green look like as separate colors, this seems impossible.
Can I have some.
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