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How many of you are color blind?

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  • J Josh Smith

    leckey wrote:

    Yeah, whoever completes 10 acres first wins!

    :laugh: I imagine that for most people reading our thread here, they must be wondering what in the Hell the two of us are smoking! :laugh: :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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    Soybeans baby!

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    • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

      I am :( I can't distinguish between some shades of Red and some shades of Green. It is not extremely bad but I could not qualify to become an Air Force pilot and now I here as a programmer, as a CPian.


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      Nish Nishant
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      How do you know you are color blind? I mean, you don't see green (or red) as others do, but you still see some color, don't you? Regards, Nish


      Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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      • J Josh Smith

        leckey wrote:

        Yeah, whoever completes 10 acres first wins!

        :laugh: I imagine that for most people reading our thread here, they must be wondering what in the Hell the two of us are smoking! :laugh: :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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        Fernando A Gomez F
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        Josh Smith wrote:

        I imagine that for most people reading our thread here, they must be wondering what in the Hell the two of us are smoking!

        Pretty much, yeah... A polar bear is a bear whose coordinates has been changed in terms of sine and cosine.

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        • C Christopher Duncan

          Just as long as he stays away from the panel that controls the heat seeking missles, of course. :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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          Jeremy Falcon
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          Well, I guess that would make poker seem dull. Jeremy Falcon

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          • N Nish Nishant

            How do you know you are color blind? I mean, you don't see green (or red) as others do, but you still see some color, don't you? Regards, Nish


            Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
            Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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            Christian Graus
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            You take a test at an optometrist. It has to do with discerning shades. If Smitha despairs at your inability to wear matching clothes, you probably are. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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            • N Nish Nishant

              How do you know you are color blind? I mean, you don't see green (or red) as others do, but you still see some color, don't you? Regards, Nish


              Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
              Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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              Rama Krishna Vavilala
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              I cannot pass these tests. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html[^]


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              • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                I cannot pass these tests. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html[^]


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                Nish Nishant
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                Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                I cannot pass these tests. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html\[^\]

                Okay - I could. Guess I am not color blind after all. Regards, Nish


                Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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                  Soybeans baby!

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                  Josh Smith
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                  leckey wrote:

                  Soybeans baby!

                  I'm into cheese doodles these days. Smoke'm if you got'em, baby!! :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                  • J Josh Smith

                    leckey wrote:

                    Soybeans baby!

                    I'm into cheese doodles these days. Smoke'm if you got'em, baby!! :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                    mmmm....burnt cheese!

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                    • N Nish Nishant

                      Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                      I cannot pass these tests. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html\[^\]

                      Okay - I could. Guess I am not color blind after all. Regards, Nish


                      Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                      Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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                      Christian Graus
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                      By 'after all' do you mean 'in spite of being badly dressed' ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                        I cannot pass these tests. http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html[^]


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                        Christian Graus
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                        LOL - I failed the first, for the second, I could *kind of* see 8, which is not even in the list. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                          I am :( I can't distinguish between some shades of Red and some shades of Green. It is not extremely bad but I could not qualify to become an Air Force pilot and now I here as a programmer, as a CPian.


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                          Chris Maunder
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                          C'mon - I was at least expecting someone to say "The guy who did the new colorscheme". ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            C'mon - I was at least expecting someone to say "The guy who did the new colorscheme". ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            leckey 0
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                            Nothing like self-loathing Chris!

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                              I am :( I can't distinguish between some shades of Red and some shades of Green. It is not extremely bad but I could not qualify to become an Air Force pilot and now I here as a programmer, as a CPian.


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                              peterchen
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                              I have a red/green color vision deficiency - I usually get primary colors ok, but I can tell #FFFF00 from #00FF00 only when side by side, about #00A000 is definitely green though. Driving through city centers by night is a tad risky because the traffic lights don't stick out. A friend of mine is totally r/g blind. That, however, seems easier when you argue with "normal vision" people about it. If you can say "red, greeen, and all mixtures look grey", everybody is happy. But with a deficiency, you can argue for ages. I learnt a good defence, however. 15..20 minutes into the discussion, when the "normal vision" people are utterly confused or in full disbelieve mode, I ask: "Tell me how blue looks - without using color names, or pointing to something". This shuts them up :)


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                                C'mon - I was at least expecting someone to say "The guy who did the new colorscheme". ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                peterchen
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                                He can't be just color blind. If that bile is random, there is no god. as a matter of fact, I got fairly used to it. But who lets a fact stop a derogating remark?


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                                  By 'after all' do you mean 'in spite of being badly dressed' ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                                  Nish Nishant
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                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  By 'after all' do you mean 'in spite of being badly dressed' ?

                                  :laugh: I was half worried I might have been - but after the test, and managing to figure out the digits correctly, I was relieved - not that it seems to make much difference to my sense of fashion :-) Regards, Nish


                                  Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                                  Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)

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                                    Nothing like self-loathing Chris!

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                                    Chris Maunder
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                                    Noooo - I just hate seeing a potential gag line set up so nicely then completely ignored by the unwashed masses. :rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      I have a red/green color vision deficiency - I usually get primary colors ok, but I can tell #FFFF00 from #00FF00 only when side by side, about #00A000 is definitely green though. Driving through city centers by night is a tad risky because the traffic lights don't stick out. A friend of mine is totally r/g blind. That, however, seems easier when you argue with "normal vision" people about it. If you can say "red, greeen, and all mixtures look grey", everybody is happy. But with a deficiency, you can argue for ages. I learnt a good defence, however. 15..20 minutes into the discussion, when the "normal vision" people are utterly confused or in full disbelieve mode, I ask: "Tell me how blue looks - without using color names, or pointing to something". This shuts them up :)


                                      Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
                                      Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist

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                                      Christian Graus
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                                      peterchen wrote:

                                      But with a deficiency, you can argue for ages.

                                      At school, people would ask me what color something was. If I got it right, they'd say 'see - you're not.'. If I got it wrong, they'd look at it again and say 'you're just pretending'. I gave up. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                                        That's odd, the most common type is red/green, the rare one is blue/yellow. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                                        Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                        Why is that odd? I would think reg and brown can be close when brown is dark and green and brown when green is dark and brown is light. Green, when lime-looking, confuses me with yellow. I really have to stare at it to get it right. Then the obvious like purple/blue/fushia and other weird combinations. I stick to the Rainbow (minus violet) or RGB's. :) Hey baby, you lookin' good in RGB(255, 0, 0). ;)


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                                        • L leckey 0

                                          I'm not color blind; color blindness does occur in men much more often. We studied it in Genetics while I was in college--pretty interesting. However, without glasses I'm legally blind. I can't see the big E at the top of the eye chart. I'm over 20/200 with astigmatism of about -12 to -14 in my eyes. No flying for me either.:((

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                                          Rob Philpott
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                                          Similar story here. In the UK I get free eye tests for being more than -10 in each eye. I wear contact lenses (gas permeable) and they are without doubt the best thing I've paid for in my life. Like yourself though I have an astigmatism (off the scale!) and it seems that's the thing which can't be corrected. No soft lenses, no laser treatments. You and I must share the difficulty of not being able to recognise friends at a distance, and in work having to get far, far closer to someone's monitor to see what's on it than pretty much everyone else. Its embarrassing sometimes. For a full eye check my optician requires that I don't wear my lenses for at least 12 hours before turning up, and when I do very kindly offers to help me down the stairs in case I can't see where I go, trip over and do myself some damage. Kind of touching really. I've always wondered what it must be like to have perfect vision, but I've never known it and hence can't miss it. Regards, Rob Philpott.

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