https://ismy.blue/

Two years ago i shared this website where you try and determine when a shade is either blue or green.

Posting it again because lemmy has grown quite a bit since then, maybe we have more people that havent tried it!

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[–] 19 points 5 hours ago* (4 children)

I'm gonna be that guy and point out that there is no way the population stat is accurate when color reproduction on screens varies so much. (I got a similar 87%)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (3 children)

    could be ever a true neutral monitor?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    There are apparently very expensive monitors that are designed to be more accurate. I wouldn't know. I'm fine with my hand-me-down 1080 I got for cheap.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    This is a hard test because most of the colours presented don't look green or blue, is like a perfect blend, and hard to answer

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    Anytime color perception comes up, it's good to point colorblind isn't a lack of colors...

    It's just different colors:

    Red-green color blindness is caused by an unusual form of a light receptor in the eye, which is sensitive to a different range of colors than normal. This variant type of receptor makes it harder to distinguish among red, orange, yellow, and green. The resulting shift in color perception bestows extra sensitivity to other hues, however, as the researchers demonstrated by asking subjects to rate the similarity of 15 circles painted in tones of khaki. People with regular vision struggled with the test, while color-blind men aced it. The findings lend credence to the theory that people with red-green color blindness make good hunters or soldiers because they are not easily fooled by camouflage. The researchers hypothesize that the variant form of receptor could be an evolutionary relic from the time when early humans needed to spot predators or food hidden in branches and leaves.

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/in-combat-stick-with-the-color-blind-15907

    People who suck at red/green, are the ones that never understand why all the different colored khakis were always mixed together on the rack.

    People just always assume what they perceive, is what every one else does too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Also, as we age the lens in our eyes starts to yellow, diminishing our ability to perceive blue. There is speculation that this is why many artists use more blue in their paintings when they get older - they're painting to match what they imagine, not what they see.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 minutes ago*

    Why isn't there a “this is turquoise” option?

    Or the possibility of marking it as both green and blue? (Or neither, whatever floats your boat.)

    RGB #00FFFF is objectively as green as it is blue (well, in my screen the midpoint at which I'd be more likely to call it green seems to be at or around #00FFF5 ± 5, but that's probably due to the screen being imperfect)... it makes no sense to call it (or sufficiently close hues) one or the other...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Is your green my blue?

    And my green your blue, too?

    Could it be we have differing views?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    That what I have always wondered. Is there a easy to tell if all of our brains perceive the same colours? Maybe whatever I see as "blue" (~400nm) someone else sees as what I would call "yellow" but all they have ever known to call it was blue. Same wavelength but the brain interprets it differently.

    We could all have the same favourite colour but just call it different things.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Did it twice. 174 and 175, so consistent at least

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  • [–] 1 point 1 minute ago

    I got 177, 176, then 184, so I figured I'd go one more time and got 176 again (then 179 because 5 is a nice number)

    Then I tried on my phone which is currently lowest brightness and thought for sure I'd get different results than my computer monitor. 179, 177, and 176

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

    I got 175, but oddly when I look at the final result it's off. If I had been asked to pick the dividing line when I can see all hues at once it would have been more to the right. My strategy was if I could see any hint of green, so by themselves some of the ones near 175 looked blue, but then pick up the green cast when they're near another green.

    I tested again, slower, and still got 176.

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