Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception
A visual neuroscientist realized he saw green and blue differently to his wife. He designed an interactive site that has received over 1.5m visits
Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/AW488FLzNS7GbBXfW9yGN6Q
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Oh I’ve been familiar with this problem since I was a child, from the day my parents found me drawing with a green coloured pencil which I thought was an ordinary pencil…Then the time in early adolescence when we used to have standard school medical checks….
One was colour perception- The circle of coloured dots and you are supposed to see a particular number or if your perception was slightly ‘off’ two other numbers and I saw one that was not ‘on the chart’.
Then there was my military modelling painting exercises, and one day Sheila looked over my shoulder and asked, in a curiosity way ‘Darling. Why are you painting that cavalry horse green?’.
These days I ask Sheila what the colour I am looking at is supposed to be.
My brain actually made some adjustments, did a deal with the senses….Thus if something might look a certain shade of one colour I guess it is actually another, usually that works out ok.
As for colour tests, at this time of life I tend to treat them as a fun exercise into perceptions of Reality.
Interesting article though.
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Hello Roger. I struggle with those color / hidden number circles also. I barely past the color requirements for my military satellite repair classes. Ron and I often talk about the colors of the home in our development. Ron often has to correct me on what is the color really is. Hugs. Scottie
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My Dad who served in WWII in the Signals Corps used to joke about what chaos I could have caused he had such a funny and knock about delivery that I used to find it hilarious and still do.
Yes Sheila is the one who choses ALL the colours in our house.
Best wishes.
Roger
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Hi Roger I understand. Ron and I work together to pick colors but he will question me as to what color I see and want to have shown. Often what I think will be the color others see is not the one I see. It is weird.
Roger I am going offline for a while, a few days to fix / update the computers. Please don’t feel bad if you don’t see me for a few days. Hugs and loves. Scottie
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OK. Thanks for the update Scottie.
Seen you soon, and take care.
Roger
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Hi Roger. I have quite a tale to tell on that adventure. Look for the video soon. Hugs. Scottie
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Battle against The Machine? (Skynet as in Terminator?)
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Fascinating. I’ll be reblogging this one.
My result?
Well, duh. Of course turquoise is green. 😊
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Hi. Thank you for the reblog Janet. I took the test twice. The first time I was 188 and the second I was 187. Your boundary is at hue 187, bluer than 97% of the population. For you, turquoise is green. So we are very close in our color perception. Hugs. Scottie
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Oh, and the reference to Sapir-Whorf? “chef’s kiss”
My Barbara was a linguist by training before she became a social worker. She firmly believed that language creates reality. I’m more in the camp that it reflects reality, both physical and cultural. Still, loved the article, and the site.
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I always find this stuff interesting; I went to bed without supper one time because my stepmom kept telling me to get the “green” bowls for the potatoes and the gravy. Now, I maybe should have known which bowls she meant, but I always did after that night (I was 7.) But, first, we had those bowls before the steps came along, and they were always blue. They were a delightful sky blue, and everyone, including all the steps except Mom, conceded they were sky blue. But I always got mixed up, because when Mom specified a thing, she meant that thing, and sometimes that meant that something got put in the wrong place, so we had to find it. So, I looked and looked for the green bowls, which turned out to be the blue bowls which were right where they should have been. And missed supper over it. I don’t know if I ever took this color test, either, but I’ve never had trouble with green and blue with anyone else. You know, I’m a pretty literal person; to me, turquoise is not green, not blue, but turquoise. The block on the Guardian page is entirely blue, to me; not enough green anywhere to overcome the blue.
Interestingly, my stepmom’s favorite color was blue; she preferred the deeper hues between royal and cobalt blue. ismy.blue says my threshold is 149; I feel like I fudged on the green, because the two greens I saw were greener at the tops, bluer at the bottoms but I called them green because of the tops. Also, I’m on DH’s Chromebook; maybe it’s the settings, but I saw what I saw.
I am probably too literal for this stuff. ismy.blue says for me, turquoise is blue. Maybe it is if I add blue to it. This was fun!
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Hi Ali. I am glad you enjoy it. I think your mother overreacted, sending you to bed with no supper. Sadly I went to bed hungry too many times. My hue cut off is 187 or 188, I took the test twice to be sure. For me turquoise is green. I am closer to Janet than to you on the color chart. Hugs. Scottie
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