One of my best friends has a color vision deficiency, or "color blindness," as it is also known. Being as that we are best of friends, I have asked him on several occasions to describe what he sees as I compare it to what I see when looking at things like posters, movies, the sky, [...]
Read More color blindness, cones, dichromatism, protanopia, rods, The Eye, TritanopiaWhen I teach beginning lighting design classes, I always have a week of learning about the eye – how your rods and cones balance each other, what their respective jobs are, how the images you see are translated to the brain, and how, as lighting designers, we can use the strengths and weaknesses of the [...]
Read More cones, light, photopic, purkinje, purkinje effect, rods, scotopic, sensitivity