• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So, for my normal color vision it’s as though the saturation for red and green is reduced by about 75%. I can distinguish between very bright samples of red and green, but the more mellow tones just kind of wash out. Likewise for colors that contain red/green: for example, purple will wash out to blue unless its very bright.

    With the glasses on, it’s as though someone put a mild pink/purple filter on and pumped up the saturation to be only -10% or so; its a lot easier to tell what color I’m looking at. Oranges in particular are extremely vivid.

    I had them on when I was bringing groceries out to the car one time and I had a pot roast that I was loading into the trunk. I didn’t have the sunglasses on in the store, but I put them on while leaving. Normally meat looks brown to me, and it was genuinely shocking to see the bright red blood; I briefly wondered what was wrong with it before I remembered I was wearing the glasses.

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      7 months ago

      Very interesting, thanks! I wonder how it makes things appear more saturated if it’s just mildly tinting everything pink.

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        7 months ago

        Supposedly it blocks out the in-between colors that muddy up perception.

        If we use sound as an analogy, it would be like putting a high-pass filter on a busy signal so that you can better perceive the high end without the other sound waves changing the fundamental.