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I've always had a good sense of color... able to pick out what makes up a color, able to see where they're off, able to see colors others say should not be there. I ran across this test again, where you have to drop and drag colors in order of their hue. I took the test, with a bright window behind my screen and I still. kicked. ass. Scores ranged from 0 being the best to 1520 being the worst. For women in my age range, I scored a 12. I knew it wasn't perfect, but my eyes were fried and I submitted. Not to mention I have horrible vision and am old.
I'll take a 12!!
I made EL stop reading her physics book (she's reading it for fun, don't ask...) and take the test. I was thinking I stood a chance at beating her... the old gray mare might still be what it used to be. And her score?? 11! Grrrrrr. I'm going to block out the window and take it again...
Shout out question for Herr Doktor Vision... and forgive its simplicity, but... is it merely cones that allow us to perceive color, or does a life's worth of color experience help as well?
Update:
This song had to be added after I realized why it was playing in my head after taking the test...
Arrgh! I was thru w/the second row, got a call and absentmindedly clicked away!! I'll have to try again later.
And, I HAVE to believe that a lifetime of color experience has got to help.
I shall await the final word of Herr Doktor Vision, however.
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 04:21 PM
I did it again and got a 5!!! I think I'm going to stop there... or start fresh in the morning! Wait till the morning, BG! Your eyes will be fresh.
Also, I agree, I would have to think a lifetime of color experience would help... building visual memory or something... We'll see!
I was going to link to an monkey vision article fish had up years ago, but alas, no more fish posts, so no monkey vision for us!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 05:26 PM
We'll see!
Pun intended? :)
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 06:11 PM
I love moving those little boxes around!
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 06:11 PM
4 on my first try- that was with background reflections. For once I don't suck. Also, I do not want to to a hearing one like this where they reveal you can't hear half of regular frequencies. What I want to know is which ones were off- I had a feeling that I was better with some colors than with others. /hue racism?
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 26, 2012 at 06:15 PM
I'm going to try it again at night, when the entire room is dark, except for my screen!!
Pinko- one of my nieces had a hearing test app on her phone and ran a test while a bunch of us, all varying ages were together for a holiday. It was scary to watch the people stop raising their hands... all corresponding to age. YL heard the most and she is the youngest.
Also, if you click through, it should tell you where you sucked, hue-wise.
And... I just realized why a certain song has been stuck in my head since taking this. No, it has nothing to do with the lyrics, but merely who sings it. Guh... I'll post it under the post.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 06:25 PM
HAHAHA! I never realized that was how they spelled "Hues"!!!!
Perfect score the second time around, but I will probably say that that is 50% the very good laptop monitor. Second time around I remembered to turn up the brightness all the way. Best part was at the very end, I switched two that were on the edge of the third row. I couldn't tell if one of the rows was harder than the others. I feel like some were easier.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 26, 2012 at 06:33 PM
Also, GC is taking it now. I am on pins and needles!!!!!
BG needs to tell us her score. My guess: 1 MILLION
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 26, 2012 at 06:34 PM
Oh yeah! Turning up the brightness! That would be good. I have no curtains on my window so I'm going to wait for dark!
I love when you think two might need to be switched and you do it and it's so obviously WRONG, even though so subtle.
Share GC's score!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 06:37 PM
She has to wait for Goob to go to bed. Goob was hanging on her.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 26, 2012 at 07:04 PM
Yeah, she's probably just using that excuse so she can put on her bee or butterfly vision googles and then she'll see the ultraviolet colors and blow us all out of the water!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 07:33 PM
PP's never around and then BING BAM BOOM, he is.
My score was 1 MILLION MINUS 999,992.
Wish I woulda read about turning up the brightness before I did it!!
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 08:13 PM
I love when you think two might need to be switched and you do it and it's so obviously WRONG, even though so subtle.
I agree!
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 08:15 PM
I still want to do it again when it's completely dark out so I can see if I can get a 0... just for my own peave of mind.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 08:26 PM
WTF?? Peave of mind??
Posted by: Jennifer | June 26, 2012 at 08:27 PM
Popovers for jibberish. It's contagious.
Posted by: blue girl | June 26, 2012 at 08:29 PM
7. I am too impatient to try to improve it.
Posted by: Substance McGravitas | June 26, 2012 at 11:59 PM
Refreshed captcha four times though.
Posted by: Substance McGravitas | June 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM
I shall take my winnings now!
I do note that we've got some pretty high color acuity here. I always knew you guys were shady.
Go ahead, raise a hue and cry.
Painting with a broad brush are we?
Maybe you can canvas the neighborhood for more puns.
I can go all night!!!!!!
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 27, 2012 at 02:02 AM
Good morning, what's all this now?
The earlier you go to bed, the earlier Dog O'Clock rolls around.
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Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | June 27, 2012 at 05:31 AM
Shout out question for Herr Doktor Vision...
I always thought he was Herr Doktor Sexy. Damn, can't find that "Ming the Meritless" link!
Posted by: Big Bad Bald Bastard | June 27, 2012 at 05:53 AM
Refreshed captcha four times though.
Half the time I think captcha lets me through with only 75% accuracy.
I shall take my winnings now!
Alright Pinko, you win... the Header Contest!!!
Good morning, what's all this now?
The earlier you go to bed, the earlier Dog O'Clock rolls around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... what's your score???
And to B^4.. Herr Doktor Sexy??? Dear. Lord. I need some coffee.
BG- You should try the test on your Kindle. I accessed it via my phone and the color differences were enhanced. Unfortunately I could not drop and drag. :( I'm sticking with my 5. Hell, I was thrilled with 12!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 07:42 AM
12 for me, in the basement, with the laptop.
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Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | June 27, 2012 at 07:43 AM
Talk about going blind! That week on the Kindle almost did my eyes in!
Posted by: blue girl | June 27, 2012 at 08:02 AM
And the Universe speaks. Maybe we're a bunch of tetrachromats? (Not PP, tho. He's definitely a New World Monkey.)
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/rainbow-vision.html
Posted by: blue girl | June 27, 2012 at 08:14 AM
Tetrachromat sounds like a place to have colorful lunch... or do colorful laundry.
LOL... yes, I think Pinko is a NW Monkey!
It’s possible these so-called tetrachromats see a hundred million colors, with each familiar hue fracturing into a hundred more subtle shades for which there are no names, no paint swatches.
I believe that. I'm constantly talking about colors in shadows, especially in shadows of a group of plants, where some light is coming in and you've got highlights, lowlights, bounced reflections, atmosphere... It's like you have a world of this subtle color going on and NO ONE SEES IT! I almost feel those colors more than I see them.
And... who needs bimler when you've got BG! Thanks for the links. I think bimler is lost in a German beer garden... Not that I blame him.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 08:24 AM
Also... and I'm not sure if this was developed over a lifetime or is a case of Synesthesia, but when I said I feel colors, some more than others, it's because I hear certain notes when I look at them, or I feel the note in my chest and I can hum it. Most colors I like, or like to live with, hit the same note/key. I keep meaning to hum it into a guitar tuner so I can figure out if I'm living in the key of C or what... Or perhaps I'm just a weirdo. :)
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 08:30 AM
You guys seriously just ignored all of those art puns?
Sad.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 27, 2012 at 09:07 AM
You guys seriously just ignored all of those art puns?
You seemed to be primed and running with it so we let you. :) Layering on the puns... it's what Pinko does best... that, and running contests. :)
I have a new video I must add!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 09:20 AM
It appears most of the songs my brain goes to on autopilot are Top 40 AM 70's songs...
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 09:25 AM
I took the test and got a rock.
Posted by: Brando | June 27, 2012 at 09:43 AM
You could resize them youtubers to be the same, Jennifer.
If you wanted to...
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Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | June 27, 2012 at 02:40 PM
I know... But I was lazy. I didn't even add the code to leave a space.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 27, 2012 at 02:52 PM
-18.
Whatever could that mean? Perhaps I am seeing in non-visual ranges.
...actually that would explain quite a bit.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | June 27, 2012 at 10:26 PM
Scored a 7.
Posted by: Mandos | June 28, 2012 at 07:25 AM
Another Bambi (with mom) just walked through the backyard. I tried to get pics, but mom was on the watch.
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Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | June 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Herr Doktor Sexy??? Dear. Lord. I need some coffee.
You need AKVAVIT.
The last few days I have been lost in London real-ale pubs.
Gabriele Jordan will give an update about her search for tetrachromats at a conference soon. I will pass on her thoughts.
Posted by: herr doktor bimler | June 30, 2012 at 07:18 PM
I want to thank everyone for helping me feel like a champion in something. I know it was hard, but I feel seriously Ahemed. I don't want to create a legend out of whole dropcloth, but ever since I went on a roller, my reputation has been climbing a ladder. I just easel on through my day, enjoying the palette of color and life around me. Sometimes the life is still.
GROAN
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 30, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Gesso you know, Pinko, you're stretching it.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 30, 2012 at 07:53 PM
Akavit makes me think of my parents' freezer.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 30, 2012 at 08:44 PM
Oops. I've had too much beer this evening and can't type akvavit. Plus, autocorrect is fucking with me.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 30, 2012 at 08:47 PM
Also, it seems early for intense cicada noise. I'm sitting outside, experiencing a cacophony o' cicadas... It's still June!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 30, 2012 at 08:50 PM
I meant to say that I'll be swatching you.
We have so many crickets here that their dead bodies make the grocery story parking lot smell. Also they are in the ceilings at work. There were a LOT of extra crickets this year.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | June 30, 2012 at 11:32 PM
I've had too much beer this evening and can't type akvavit.
Or you're turning Norwegian.
One thing about women who carry a gene for colour-blindness (i.e. are tetrachromats, whether or not their brains can use that information) is that they do perform worse on colour-arrangement tests like the 100-Hue, i.e. any additional distinctions they can see between normally-identical hues are compensated by loss of distinctions elsewhere. This has been tested.
Posted by: herr doktor bimler | July 01, 2012 at 02:06 AM
with my laptop brightness all the way down(~10% battery) i got a 23. WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT!! this probably also explains why i have bad taste in outfits maybe?
Posted by: almostinfamous | July 04, 2012 at 02:09 AM