Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
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Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#2For anyone on Android, this is possible with Simulate Color Space option in the hidden Developer Tools menu. Amusingly it works with the camera too, so you can look around the real world with some sense of what it's like.
Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#3For anyone on Android, this is possible with Simulate Color Space option in the hidden Developer Tools menu. Amusingly it works with the camera too, so you can look around the real world with some sense of what it's like.
That sounds more useful, cheers. I wonder why they haven't made it a non hidden option.
Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#4For anyone on Android, this is possible with Simulate Color Space option in the hidden Developer Tools menu. Amusingly it works with the camera too, so you can look around the real world with some sense of what it's like.
That sounds more useful, cheers. I wonder why they haven't made it a non hidden option.
It's annoying enough (especially as a child at school, but not at all exclusively) to be colourblind and put up with 'so what colour is this' without people waving their phone around exclaiming about how it says you see things, thanks.
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#5This is such a useful tool, I constantly pop it up to check contrast in my art.
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#6Huge fan of this tool for working on GUI implementations, ensuring the color choices and contrasts make sense for users that see GUIs differently than I do.
Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#7I’ll highlight a note from the developer:
Sim Daltonism lets you see through the eyes of someone with a color blindness. While the colors shown are a good approximation of what a color blind person would see, you should not expect them to be perfect.
Everyone has his own perception of colors that differs slightly from other people, and color blindness are often partial at different degrees. More importantly, cameras do not have the same spectral response as cones in your eyes, so the simulation has to make some assumptions about the frequency composition of the colors.
I’m colorblind and haven’t found a simulator that comes close to what it’s like for me. This app doesn’t do it either.
Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#8I’ll highlight a note from the developer: Sim Daltonism lets you see through the eyes of someone with a color blindness. While the colors shown are a good approximation of what a color blind person would see, you should not expect them to be perfect. Everyone has his own perception of colors that differs slightly from other people, and color blindness are often partial at different degrees. More importantly, cameras…
I'm also color blind, red green, but not sure how you expected to be able to judge it.
You can't see how the app affects colors in absense of your own color blindness to compare.
Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#9Tangential: I've been playing around with the color blindness filters on my iPhone, and the grayscale filter had me thinking for a moment. I've set it to 50%, set up the accessibility shortcut (triple-click on the home button) to toggle it, and found myself using my phone with the filter on basically 99% of the time.
It's been a couple of months, and I've noticed that the oversaturated colors were making me slightly agitated, somehow captivating my attention. I sometimes disable the filter to look at a particular picture, or to figure out a detail in some context where the colors are already desaturated. Now my only wish is that it was less linear, maybe like a compressor in audio - maintain detail until it starts approaching the ceiling.
It may be a good idea if you'd consider but don't want to switch.
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Re: Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator
#10I’ll highlight a note from the developer: Sim Daltonism lets you see through the eyes of someone with a color blindness. While the colors shown are a good approximation of what a color blind person would see, you should not expect them to be perfect. Everyone has his own perception of colors that differs slightly from other people, and color blindness are often partial at different degrees. More importantly, cameras…
What would “close to what it’s like” entail exactly?
Would it mean that when you look at a simulation of the effects of your colorblindness, you see zero change from the unaltered view?
Or would it mean that it looks absolutely nothing like what you see because it’s transforming the base image by clamping the input colors to what you can see, and stretching that decimated color space out over the entire range of normal sensitivity?
Sometimes I suspect that the range of color qualia the human mind experiences is the same regardless of what actual color receptors one has; the sensation we call “red” is assigned to the lowest end of the input scale, regardless of whether or not the lowest end is at the normal wavelength, and that every filter that just removes color and provides a duller image is doing completely the wrong thing. But it’s a much simpler transformation to implement.
(I think the key to checking this would involve violently clashing colors. Or a way to make someone start growing new cone cells in their eyes.)
Also if you have had entirely too many conversations with the normies about “what does it look like for you” then please just ignore this, my SO is partially colorblind and gets that a lot!