blackfox, you've confirmed that the stuff in the
diagram is indeed in the
original image, if your computer display and your eyesight give you the chance to see them. You should compare what you spotted with the diagram. What you called glasses or barbells is supposed to be a car.
I didn't realize that the digits in the diagram were actually part of the image; I thought the numbers in the diagram were a legend. Oops!
I didn't notice anyone ask what I figure are pretty significant questions, though.
Does it bother you being color blind? Do you feel like you're missing out? When you ponder the spectrum of colors that you're able to see, is it even conceivable to you that there are entirely different colors every bit as different as between the different colors that you can see?
My experience tells me that most people don't like to be pitied, but I really think it would suck to be colorblind; it's sort of a "what you don't know can hurt you via deprivation" thing... You can't see green and purple, which are beautiful, but you're stuck with a whole bunch of ugly yellow.
I wish I could trade vision with someone else, just for a minute, so we'd actually experience what we understand only intellectually. My mom, with her normal vision, has the same wish, since she lived with a color blind father and then color blind sons. It was almost as if she was the odd man out in the family. But maybe I'd be better off without finding out first-hand what I'm missing.
I'm a bit jealous when people ooh and aah over a view that I know is 33% less colorful to me (sunsets are a common case of this), but it doesn't really bother me any more than it bothers all of us that we can't do a back flip on a balance beam, solve a Rubik's cube in 30 seconds, grace a magazine cover, stay in the sun without getting seriously sunburnt, graduate first in our Law School class, afford a big house, or use a computer mouse designed for only right-handed people. After all,
some people can do those things. Compared to the social or physical problems caused by, say, autism or a cleft palate, color blindness is nothing to fret about.
Even though I know better, the answer is no, I can't quite conceive that it's so easy for most of you to distinguish colors, that pink and gray are instantly recognizable distinctly, that blue and purple aren't practically identical, and that rainbows really do have more than 2 or 3 colors. It still seems like magic when my wife admires a red-leafed tree in the fall while I see only boring brown leaves on a tree that doesn't stand out at all. But I know it's not magic at all. Once in a while somebody, knowing I'm color blind, will ask if I can tell two colors apart that are obviously different to me, and my first thought is "of course I can tell blue and yellow part... do you think I'm stupid or something?" But when that happens, I have to laugh at myself again, for thinking they should somehow be able to see things as I do just by hearing a scientific explanation.
We should all be jealous because we can't see infrared and ultraviolet!
