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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 00:42:43 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   • Trinsec

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   No, I am talking about more color discrimination within the visible range.

   So much like a red-green color blind would normally see red and green as the same color, but with special glasses on (if they worked) they would appear as different colors. But they arent seeing UV or infrared.

   Similarly if we could make humans into tetrachromats (equivelant to having one additional color discriminating receptor) then two colors that appear the same (say they both look red) would appear as two different colors, red and some new color you had never seen before. You arent seeing a new part of the spectrum, you just have high color discrimination.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 01:29:57 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Trinsec

     @trinsec functional tetra chromats are very rare. As far as I know only one has been confirmed that actually can utilize the extra information. You should do a test.

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 01:30:02 JST Trinsec

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     @freemo@qoto.org Ah. I have the suspicion I already have a higher color discrimination than the rest of my family... it's bloody tiring. I see a difference where they do not. :P

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 02:26:11 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @trinsec ahh yea if you can identify similar shades as different, but they seem very similar to you still then your not a tetrachromat.

     A true achromatic would see two colors as distinctly different when to others they would appear the same or very similar.

     You would be seeing colors other people cant see, but you wouldnt be aware of it and those new colors wouldnt have special names to you or would even be recognizable as colors others cant see.

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 02:26:13 JST Trinsec

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     @freemo@qoto.org Oh, I didn't mean I'd be a tetrachromatic. Just that without being one but still a high color discrimination present it's already bloody annoying enough. Imagine how much bigger the headache would be if one actually is one.
     
     Any color test, especially the gradient based one, I 100%ed it. So I know I'm good. Good enough at least. My dad's color blind and we argue often, heh. Nowadays I just ghost him with 'well, you're colorblind, so no sense talking to you about colors!' :P

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 03:11:26 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @trinsec because they would think normal people are color blind "those are totally different colors!"

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 03:11:28 JST Trinsec

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     @freemo@qoto.org So how would people even figure out they'd be tetrachromatics if they wouldn't really be aware that they see more colors than the average person can? Are they even within the realm of the 16M colors of a monitor (it's 16M right?) or is a monitor too limited for even them?