JayCee - 5:47 pm on Jun 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

Yes, wonderful thread!
I've started testing all my sites (thankfully they all look the same from the color-blind test web - so far).

Was wondering if some company couldn't make inexpensive "sunglasses" that would let we normal vision folks experience a more of less real simulation of color-blindness, using plastic filters. They could be sold to science museums, schools, eye doctors, medical associations, etc. Sort of like the inexpensive Red/Blue 3-D glasses.

When I was an art student studying B&W fine art photography, I came up with the idea of wearing very deep red welder's googles for a few days (and used only red lights at night) to try to experience a totally monochrome world. Two interesting results (not counting my driving) were that my color sense gradually got more acute, so that I started seeing (limited) colors again, despite the googles and that the experience of color when I first removed the googles was amazing.

Also did a project (off topic here) to see if graduate photo students could descriminate levels of gray values better than folks I dragged in off the street - they certainly could.