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Thursday
Jan292009

Insight: Color Perception

As part of an ongoing series, I'm highlighting a series of insights I discovered in
Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design
To paraphrase page 98–99:

10% of men are color blind, 1% of women. It might be the need to find colored berries amongst the green leaves that meant color was more important, evolutionarily, to women.





 


  • Chickens have 12 color receptors as opposed to humans' three

  • Pure yellow is the one pure color all humans consistently agree on

  • Peripheral vision is color blind. (Page 361)

  • There are actually two types of red-green color receptors. And perhaps this is why we can't agree on turquoise being, in essence green, or blue

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Possibly of interest:
http://wearecolorblind.com/" rel="nofollow">wearecolorblind.com : Patterns for the Color Blind

October 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterVincent Gable

Handy link. Good find, thanks Vincent!

October 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKeith Lang
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