Support my channel on Patreon: https://patreon.com/MegaLagIn this two-part investigative documentary series, I delve into the color corrective glasses indust...
So I’m curious, what do things look like with the glasses on that you’re able to distinguish these colors? Can you describe what you’re seeing when you see gray vs. pink with and without the glasses, for example? Sorry if it’s not really possible to do so. It’s just very interesting to me!
So, for my normal color vision it’s as though the saturation for red and green is reduced by about 75%. I can distinguish between very bright samples of red and green, but the more mellow tones just kind of wash out. Likewise for colors that contain red/green: for example, purple will wash out to blue unless its very bright.
With the glasses on, it’s as though someone put a mild pink/purple filter on and pumped up the saturation to be only -10% or so; its a lot easier to tell what color I’m looking at. Oranges in particular are extremely vivid.
I had them on when I was bringing groceries out to the car one time and I had a pot roast that I was loading into the trunk. I didn’t have the sunglasses on in the store, but I put them on while leaving. Normally meat looks brown to me, and it was genuinely shocking to see the bright red blood; I briefly wondered what was wrong with it before I remembered I was wearing the glasses.
Supposedly it blocks out the in-between colors that muddy up perception.
If we use sound as an analogy, it would be like putting a high-pass filter on a busy signal so that you can better perceive the high end without the other sound waves changing the fundamental.
So I’m curious, what do things look like with the glasses on that you’re able to distinguish these colors? Can you describe what you’re seeing when you see gray vs. pink with and without the glasses, for example? Sorry if it’s not really possible to do so. It’s just very interesting to me!
So, for my normal color vision it’s as though the saturation for red and green is reduced by about 75%. I can distinguish between very bright samples of red and green, but the more mellow tones just kind of wash out. Likewise for colors that contain red/green: for example, purple will wash out to blue unless its very bright.
With the glasses on, it’s as though someone put a mild pink/purple filter on and pumped up the saturation to be only -10% or so; its a lot easier to tell what color I’m looking at. Oranges in particular are extremely vivid.
I had them on when I was bringing groceries out to the car one time and I had a pot roast that I was loading into the trunk. I didn’t have the sunglasses on in the store, but I put them on while leaving. Normally meat looks brown to me, and it was genuinely shocking to see the bright red blood; I briefly wondered what was wrong with it before I remembered I was wearing the glasses.
Very interesting, thanks! I wonder how it makes things appear more saturated if it’s just mildly tinting everything pink.
Supposedly it blocks out the in-between colors that muddy up perception.
If we use sound as an analogy, it would be like putting a high-pass filter on a busy signal so that you can better perceive the high end without the other sound waves changing the fundamental.