On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:16:32 -0400, Jellby quoth:

> In case you don't know, it was John Dalton, the father of the Atomic
> Theory, who gave name to daltonism, he was colour blind and studied that
> condition. I've always wondered how would colour blind persons see the
> colours, in fact, I wonder how do other people see the colours: do other
> people experience the same "feeling" when seeing blue as I do? They
> receive some sensation when looking at the sky, and they call it "blue",
> I do the same thing, but this doesn't mean that the sensation is the
> same...
 
According to my father, who has red-green color blindness, red and green
both appear as different shades of the same rather bland color.  Colors
that contain significant amounts of red or green are also affected, so for
example peanut butter is "green", and light pink and light grey look about
the same.

-- 
Mark Wagner

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