On Dec 16, 2005,-in-9:31 AM, Bob Bock wrote:
> Just an anecdote about something that has always fascinated me. My
> wife, three sons and I were on a camping trip once. It was night, and
> a Luna moth landed near our lantern. I said, "That's funny--in every
> picture I've ever seen, these things are light green. This one's
> white." My wife said, "What are you talking about? It is green."
> My oldest son also said it was white, while the twins said it was
> green.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jerry Baker <nanfa-in-bakerweb.biz>
>> Sent: Dec 16, 2005 1:00 AM
>> To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- color vision testing
>>
>> Mysteryman wrote:
>>> After that the test taker moves on to the other samples in the series
>>> which use different base colors like orange & blue, tan & cream,
>>> mushroom & taupe, maroon & vermillion, yellow & red, red & green,
>>> purple
>>> & green, and so forth; there are a dozen of these series. Some
>>> measure
>>> differences in very dissimilar colors, and some measure acuity
>>> within a
>>> more narrow spectrum, like blue to purple.
>>
>> The funny thing is that colorblind people are more attuned to subtle
>> differences in shade. It's precisely the reason that the principle
>> behind military camouflage is a mystery to colorblind kids (they can't
>> figure out why everyone says it makes people hard to see when it does
>> no
>> such thing). So if you want someone who can spot the difference
>> between
>> two slightly different shades of the same color, then you want a
>> colorblind person. If you want to detect actual shifts in color, then
>> you don't want a colorblind person.
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