Is my blue your blue?

[Ming the Merciless]

Boundary was 173 just now. Shifted 1 from my original post. Same device, location, and time of day.

 

[Gillstay]

171, interesting. Also how late did people find out they were colour blind. I was about 14 yrs old.

 

[si_c]

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I got the same.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've got a jacket that my wife describes as blue and I think is green. I took a photo of it and looked at the RGB code of the colour. According to my phone camera R,G and B are around the same so I guess it's really grey.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Mine is 180, but I need to state I am 'colour blind'. Anyone who is 'colour blind' (that's about 10% of males) knows that catch-all description isn't very descriptive of the condition. It depends on the ambient lighting, the area of colour in question and varies with colour. I have particular problems distinguishing green or brown. When I rewired my kit car from scratch there were only a couple of occasions I had to ask my Wife to tell me what colour tracer I had on a wire. Regarding area, here's a good example.... Unless in very good light I may have difficulty distinguishing if two thin lines red and black are drawn with a sharpie. Use the same pens to colour in a 1 inch square of each and I can see the difference easily. The Underground map at train stations makes it easy for me to distinguish the various lines, but the same thing in a small diary is just a jumble and impossible to navigate
My Wife and I have chosen a new gloss paint for the front door of our house - Turquoise!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My wife was explaining the granddaughter options of colours from her mother yesterday

Apparently the only real option for her (she is 12) is "sage green"
Which I find confusing
last time I remember seeing Sage was on Masterchef and it was dark green but apparently it is a light green

I can cope with ROYGBIV ( or more accurately VIBGYOR which is easier to remember when a teacher explain it as "Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Reactions" in Physics one year at school!)
and I can cope with adding "light" or "dark" in front of them

but go further than that and I get confused


and what the hell Cerise is is way beyond me

 

[AndyRM]

Mine is 180, but I need to state I am 'colour blind'. Anyone who is 'colour blind' (that's about 10% of males) knows that catch-all description isn't very descriptive of the condition. It depends on the ambient lighting, the area of colour in question and varies with colour. I have particular problems distinguishing green or brown. When I rewired my kit car from scratch there were only a couple of occasions I had to ask my Wife to tell me what colour tracer I had on a wire. Regarding area, here's a good example.... Unless in very good light I may have difficulty distinguishing if two thin lines red and black are drawn with a sharpie. Use the same pens to colour in a 1 inch square of each and I can see the difference easily. The Underground map at train stations makes it easy for me to distinguish the various lines, but the same thing in a small diary is just a jumble and impossible to navigate
My Wife and I have chosen a new gloss paint for the front door of our house - Turquoise!

My grandad was colour blind and things were very similar for him. It can be a very tricky condition to deal with.

 

[lazybloke]

My Wife and I have chosen a new gloss paint for the front door of our house - Turquoise!

That's what you think!

 

[Beebo]

I’ve retaken it 5 days apart.
It was 175 now 176. So that’s pretty close and probably almost indistinguishable.

 

[Dogtrousers]

171, interesting. Also how late did people find out they were colour blind. I was about 14 yrs old.

I've known for as long as I can remember.

My mother's story was that she noticed when I was making things out of plasticine. I think the story was that I made an animal with three red legs and a green leg. Or something like that.

My wife's skin is brown, but if she wears bright red or pink clothing I perceive it as green. Very Star Trek.

My dad was colour blind too, but as it's not passed down the male line that was just a coincidence. He had a story of being tested in the army with one of those blobby charts for colour blindness and was asked "what number can you see". "23" he answered. Cue much confusion. 23 wasn't an anwser on the list. "where can you see 23?" "There, that number in the corner of the page". Smart alecs like my dad were the reason they gave up on National Service.

 

[Gillstay]

Yes they showed me a blobby chart and just said `what can you see ?'. I saw a boat !

 

[Conrad_K]

Anyone who is 'colour blind' (that's about 10% of males) knows that catch-all description isn't very descriptive of the condition. It depends on the ambient lighting, the area of colour in question and varies with colour. I have particular problems distinguishing green or brown.

Yes.

When I rewired my kit car from scratch there were only a couple of occasions I had to ask my Wife to tell me what colour tracer I had on a wire.

I tried getting my wife to label the wires for me. No amount of explanation could persuade her that "chatreuse", "taupe", and "cerise" were not valid color codes. I finally used an ohmmeter on every single wire, tagging each end with masking tape.

Regarding area, here's a good example.... Unless in very good light I may have difficulty distinguishing if two thin lines red and black are drawn with a sharpie. Use the same pens to colour in a 1 inch square of each and I can see the difference easily. The Underground map at train stations makes it easy for me to distinguish the various lines, but the same thing in a small diary is just a jumble and impossible to navigate

Mostly I see "yellow" (which people sometimes identify as "orange" or "light red"), "blue" (which some people call "purple" or "plum"), and "mudcolor." Mudcolors can often be distinguished from each other by shade, but they don't stay put, and they change when adjacent to other colors.

A rainbow is a yellow band, a gap, and a blue band. I can see the ink registers on printed depictions of rainbows, but the real thing doesn't look like that.

Traffic lights are light mudcolor, sort-of-yellowish, and dark mudcolor. Which is okay when you see a given light cycle from one to the other, but not when you come up on one that's not doing anything at the moment. Most traffic lights in America are vertical, with three lamps. The middle lamp is always yellow, but while the top is *usually* green, that's not universally true. A couple of local towns have made a tidy profit from traffic fines, since apparently even people who claim to be able to tell the difference between "red" and "green" are more likely to go by position than color.

Texas and Florida like to run their traffic lights sideways. And there might be four, six, or even eight lamps. I have no idea what that's all about; when I encounter those, I ignore them and watch what the rest of the traffic is doing.

Over a century ago it was common for traffic lights to have metal shields over the lens, with cutouts saying "STOP" and "GO." But some busybody decided that was bad, I guess. Same for crosswalk lights, which used to say "WALK" and "DON'T WALK." Now they have icons that light up - "old man with bad back" and "Joshua tree." This is supposed to be "intuitively obvious", but I guess I'm not smart enough to see how either relates to safely crossing an intersection.

 

[slow horse]

Really interesting about colour blindness, thanks. 186, btw

 

[freiston]

Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.

As has been said by others, a lot depends on the display/monitor calibration/colour profile. As has also been said by others, it's "turquoise" - most of the presentations were too close to both blue and green that, imho, it doesn't matter if it's reported as blue or green - most people if asked without the constraints would have said (as an alternative to turquoise or aquamarine etc.) "bluey-green" (or "greeny-blue").

I have often had disagreements with others (particularly my ex-wife's family) as to whether something is green or grey.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Apparently the grand-daughter has been allowed ot have some say in her room colour when it is repainted

probably several shades close to "sage green" - whatever that is

based on her current attitude and music tastes I am thinking she might prefer black or dark purple but is not yet enough of a teenager to insist

I foresee an explosion in the next few years!!!