P3D Re: 'horror chromatica'

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Ray Zone <r3dzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>I'm sorry to hear that you have such an aversion to anaglyphs.  The
color
>'bombardment' must be very problematic for you.  You might have what
>optometrists have called 'horror fusionis' with respect to your color
>perception.  Have you ever tested yourself for color blindness or any
>aspect of it?  You know Keystone made an interesting set of Stereo Test
>Cards for color blindness years ago which some optometrists are still
using
>today. They test right/left eye dominance with respect to chromatic
>perception and stereo fusion.


That must have sounded almost like a personal attack to someone who's
life work is in the medium, and for that I apologize, but nevertheless
the sentiment remains true for me.  But as I said, I am only one man,
and I certainly am not out to turn anyone away from the medium who
currently enjoys it or is yet to discover it.

I was given the standard red/green color-blindness test by my
optometrist many years ago (you probably know the one, with the circles
of randomly-size red and green colored blobs, where the colorings of
some of the blobs are selected to render pairs of numbers; if you can't
distinguish between the colors, there's no way you can detect the
numbers, and your odds of guessing are pretty small).  I passed.  I'm
completely confident that I have full, normal color vision (at least, no
one laughs at my clothes [well, not for my color combinations, anyway],
and I never have to stop and think whether the "go" light is on the top
or the bottom of the traffic signal (and I've only had a couple of
accidents in 22 years of driving, none due to entering an intersection
against the light).

(And who is it decided that cheddar cheese in California has to be
fluorescent orange, anyway?  If my cow gave milk that color, I'd either
shoot it or sell it to Ripley's.  Talk about "horror chromatica"!)

         -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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