An Eye-full Survey

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

a quick study of the eyes here at EQ2interface.
( not too long ago I discovered that through one eye I see blue more and the other I see red more, so I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this. )

[Agathorn]

Shouldn't you be locked up or something?

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

Originally Posted by Agathorn

Shouldn't you be locked up or something?

you and the voices may try, but I have a lawyer with a +20 to legal loopholes.

[Deathbane27]

Voted R-hand, R-red, L-blue, but it's actually L-green for me.

[depechenode]

I have noticed phenomenon as well. Maybe that is why we are able to perceive true 3D realism?

Myself, I am Primarily Right handed and I see more reds out of my Right eye and more blues out of my Left.

This bizarre manifestation did not go away even after having Lasik Surgery to correct my mypia from 20/400 to 20/12 vision. I still have the predominant Right=Red Left=Blue in my vision.

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

I found I can shift it, if I hold something that is translucent red over one eye the eye tint changes..

Deathbane27.. sorry I hadn't met anyone who saw a green tint till now

[Laffs]

Funny as the L is actualy green for me as well .... I discovered this when I was about 11 yrd ish .. messing with the first 3d specks to view images that jump off the page lol..... Your right by messing with the colors you can get some interesting results and color shifts.... Especialy if you experiment at exactly where you think your line of vision crosses..


Voted

ambidextrous, righteye blue, lefteye red

But It should be

ambidextrous, righteye blue, lefteye green

[Prefader]

I've never heard of this color - preference thinger before, this thread inspired me to do a very, very quick search on the subject. Also, I'm very bored at work. Didn't find much, other than this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopsin

Seems to me that it's possible that different people can have different levels of these proteins in their retinas, causing them to "see" certain colors better than others. If that's what this is all about, then I'm willing to bet that it's possible to have different qualities of night-vision from eye to eye, as well, if each eye has different levels of the "visual-purple" pigment.

True? False? Waste of time? Anyone know an optometrist?

Anyone know the name for this? A search for "eye color - preference thinger" turned up squat for me. Wonder why. :P

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

Originally Posted by Prefader

True? False? Waste of time? Anyone know an optometrist?

~buzz~
what is 'waste of time' alex?

( thanks for looking up the link )

[Faetyl]

Certainly no waste of time... (This is proof)

FYI - The only trickery here is in your brain.

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.

Also found here:

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson..._illusion.html

[depechenode]

Originally Posted by Faetyl

FYI - The only trickery here is in your brain.

[left]If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear.

The disappearance is due to desensitization. Where the optic nerve gets desensitized to the color (pink in this case) and therefore stops "sending" pink signals to the optic processing area of our brain. In dentistry and in dental lab it is called Metamerism: the phenomenon exhibited by pairs of color metamers <the problem of metamerism in matching artificial with natural teeth>.

This happens a lot in the dental field. If you notice, most patient napkins (the thing around your neck) is blue. Some clinics use different colors, but predominantly they are blue. It can depend on the type of dental work being done as per the color choosen by the practitioner. If the dental work being performed is crown and bridge work, the napkin is usually blue. Why, you ask?

The color blue is a very neutral color to our optic senses. By using blue, the dentist or their assistant can glance at the napkin, to relax their eyes. This allows them to give their optic nerve a rest from "white or tooth" colored objects. By seeing blue, the eye relaxes, and the nerve once again becomes sensitive to the tooth's color. This allows the person looking at the tooth to correctly match the shade of the tooth to the shade of the crown that is going to be made.

As in the graphic demo above, the pink is slowly taken out of your vision due to the desensitizing affect. Glance away for a moment, even a split second, and your will once again be able to see the pink color again.

[Laffs]

Wow I like that pinky test

And very interesting info depechenode, I did often wonder about that dental stuff myself, But put it down to some sort of mind trick to get me to not haggle of the dental bill hehe..... Maybe that explains why I like blue in my UI's as it does seem to help my vision out, or is it my brain /shrug ... hang on this is getting confusing, I better ask my wife if I can borrow the spare brain cell to double my ram lmao