Tetrachromacy is a rare eye condition that allows for increased color vision. We’ll tell you about what causes it and how it’s diagnosed, as well as why you need to be skeptical of online tests.
I’m heterozygous for cystic fibrosis. It fucked my plans for having kids, cause I don’t have vas deferens. (Most people who are heterozygous don’t have any problems, but some men do with fertility). But apparently heterozygous people are more resistant to cholera and dysentery, since our cells hold onto water easier.
According to wikipedia, tetrachromacy is caused by having having both normal vision and red-green color blind genes in different chromosomes, so some of the red or green cones end up being receptive to a wavelength between red and green. Rods don’t sound affected.
Health line article doesn’t mention the wavelength. Got me excited that it was infrared or something
That’s fun!! I am not color blind and was able with a lot of work to sort of see some of them. The easiest is the second one just squint and unfocus if you wanna try. The first one I couldn’t get to work at all though
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Cool! I had never heard about this theory for explaining color blindness.
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I’m heterozygous for cystic fibrosis. It fucked my plans for having kids, cause I don’t have vas deferens. (Most people who are heterozygous don’t have any problems, but some men do with fertility). But apparently heterozygous people are more resistant to cholera and dysentery, since our cells hold onto water easier.
According to wikipedia, tetrachromacy is caused by having having both normal vision and red-green color blind genes in different chromosomes, so some of the red or green cones end up being receptive to a wavelength between red and green. Rods don’t sound affected.
Health line article doesn’t mention the wavelength. Got me excited that it was infrared or something
Same with my dad. He said that the military liked red/green colour blindness for spotting camouflaged stuff.
This link is very interesting. Interesting for people that are colorblind, and interesting for people that are not.
I could see 3 out of 4 of them but I’m not colour blind…
That’s fun!! I am not color blind and was able with a lot of work to sort of see some of them. The easiest is the second one just squint and unfocus if you wanna try. The first one I couldn’t get to work at all though
Great, I’m too color blind for the normal tests, and not color blind enough for this apparently. Fuckin dots man.
This is how all super powers work… There is always a downside.