Kaminsky's Next Hack? Colorblindness
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Most of the time I hardly notice that I'm missing something because of my colorblindness and when I do notice it 99% of the time it's because someone pointed it to me because they think I said something stupid (like calling a sweeter brown when it's actually green).
I just can't see myself trying to view my whole life through an iPhone to see if I'm missing something..
By the way, in the sample tests shown on the article, while the app allows me to easily distinguish the number in the first picture, I can barely make out the number in the second picture even after it is enhanced by the app. So maybe the app could use some improvement or the settings needed for me could be different from the default ones.
It's fairly rare to find someone who the second image doesn't massively help, so it'd be really cool if you could play with the hard settings. Also, HueWindow is pretty much guaranteed to work if you can see at all.
Especially since my glasses would then be a phone.
I'm mildly colorblind myself, but I haven't tried them to see how they work. The thing is, mild forms of colorblindness really don't affect everyday life much, so I can't see a point in treating it in most cases.
I just want to see this damn thing you all call purple. If it really exists.
I don't think it would be very practical, especially since I think it would be hard to make it work without dictating the exact distance from phone screen to eye and from camera to object being viewed. But it would be cool.
If your eyes have different prescriptions it's not going to work, but maybe you could set it up for one eye and just close the other (but then maybe it would be easier to hold the phone closer to/further from your face).
I wish I could remember enough about optics to figure this out!
And you're right that two eyes would be a problem. Even if they have the same prescription, I think the fact that the angle from the left eye to the screen and from the right eye to the screen would be different.
It seems like a monocole should be doable, at least if I dictate that they center the phone in front of their eye and the distance from their eye to the screen. But I don't know much about optics either.
As I understand it, the problem with my eye is that my lens doesn't focus a point light source (e.g. a pixel) onto a point on my retina - one consequence of which is that the point source gets smeared out over a larger area (also I have astigmatism which means my eyes aren't perfectly spherical so colours get messed up, but lets ignore that!).
You can't fix that smearing by warping the shape of the image, but maybe you could adjust the brightness of the adjacent pixels to cancel out the smeared out bit - I guess by making the adjacent pixels a little darker than they should be. I don't know if that's a solvable set of equations.
If I flip my glasses over and look through the lens backwards, my vision doesn't get twice as bad - it's actually better than no glasses at all. Not sure what that tells you other than optics is very confusing to me.
I like this before/after illustration: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/andygreenberg/files/2010/12/b... thats pretty cool because while I can see both images and the numbers in them, the second is so much more vivid.
I wonder how long until someone invents some glasses that refract just certain wavelengths to be a little higher? Could be very lucrative.
It just seems to 'change' colours sometimes because its scattering white light.