Football Pitches.

Mr. Ree wrote:We're all used to seeing green turfs, 'cause that's the colour of grass yeah? But I was talking to a mate of mine who's colour blind, and to him, green is orange!

So basically he's watching football being played on orange turf! How weird is that? But to him, that's the norm.

So I began to wonder, what if it was possible to colour in turf? Imagine watching our football being played on a purple pitch, or a blue one or a red one. We're all so accustomed to the green turf, so every other colour just seems absurd.

Obviously the kits would become an issue too. Liverpool playing on a red pitch would be confusing.

Anyway I know this topic is really pointless and random, but it is what it is!

kyro7 wrote:He's colour blind and see's orange?

Danny B wrote:If he can actually see colours, surely the correct term isn't colour blind..

Mr. Ree wrote:

kyro7 wrote:He's colour blind and see's orange?

That's something that I get really confused about with colour blind people.

I asked him what does green look like? He said orange.

I said, if you're colour blind how do you know what orange looks like in the first place?

He can't explain it.

It's weird tbh.

Danny B wrote:Yeah, but generally, most people who see one colour as another, it's usually something like blue and purple, not green and orange..

Danny B wrote:Yeah, but generally, most people who see one colour as another, it's usually something like blue and purple, not green and orange..

Jelavic18|RFC wrote:Apparently how they see traffic lights ...

Mr. Ree wrote:

Jelavic18|RFC wrote:Apparently how they see traffic lights ...

If that was the case, surely driving would be illegal for colour blind people? My mate drives ..

Aaron wrote:Don't do drugs kids.

kyro7 wrote:

Mr. Ree wrote:

Jelavic18|RFC wrote:Apparently how they see traffic lights ...

If that was the case, surely driving would be illegal for colour blind people? My mate drives ..

Not really, I can see the difference in them 3 colours, they'd get used to it.

But traffic lights are amber not yellow in the middle.

(polskaGOLA) wrote:

kyro7 wrote:

Mr. Ree wrote:

Jelavic18|RFC wrote:Apparently how they see traffic lights ...

If that was the case, surely driving would be illegal for colour blind people? My mate drives ..

Not really, I can see the difference in them 3 colours, they'd get used to it.

But traffic lights are amber not yellow in the middle.

Maybe in england.

Mr. Ree wrote:

Aaron wrote:Don't do drugs kids.

:lolno:

Sean CFC wrote:In American Football, Boise state (college team) play on a blue pitch

So...yea

dena wrote:Boise State play on blue grass.



Nuts.

dena wrote:Shut it.

ahlycotc wrote:I have a friend who is green-red color blind. By the way, color blind people can still see colors, they just can't see some (usually 2), unless they are complete color-blind (which is very rare).

I always imagined if people saw the same color. Is green for me, green for you? We might both call it green because we were taught to, but green could look like purple to me and orange to you.

ahlycotc wrote:I have a friend who is green-red color blind. By the way, color blind people can still see colors, they just can't see some (usually 2), unless they are complete color-blind (which is very rare).

I always imagined if people saw the same color. Is green for me, green for you? We might both call it green because we were taught to, but green could look like purple to me and orange to you.

ahlycotc wrote:I always imagined if people saw the same color. Is green for me, green for you? We might both call it green because we were taught to, but green could look like purple to me and orange to you.

I think everybody has wondered about this at one point or another. I've certainly heard many people ask it, although I'm surprised that I haven't seen it crop up more frequently here on Yahoo! Answers. My guess would be no, we don't see different colors (with a few exceptions, outlined below), and what I call blue is blue to you as well.

I have a few reasons for thinking this. First, the light we perceive as blue (or red or orange or whatever) is made up of one particular wavelength. When that light enters your eye and strikes the retina, it excites color-sensitive cones, which interpret the light's wavelength into a nervous impulse that is sent directly to your brain. There the impulse is processed, which gives you the sensation of seeing blue. Of course it's much more complicated than just that, but I'm guessing you don't want to read a whole text book on how human vision works (although you should some day...really fascinating stuff).

Since the physiology of the healthy eyeball is more or less the same from person to person, if there's any difference in color perception it would have to happen at the brain level. I really can't begin to speculate on why two people would perceive the same color differently, although I'm not going to claim that just because I don't understand it, it could never happen.

That said, there is also the issue of the color spectrum. When we see a rainbow, we see a continuous spread of the colors from red to violet, but it's the in-betweens that is perhaps most telling. Let's say that we're both looking at solid patches of red and orange. Let's say that what I call red and orange, you perceive as what, to me, would be blue and yellow. What do we then call the shade that exists between red and orange? To me, it looks like a tangerine-ish blend of the two colors, but you would perceive it as white, assuming that color mixing works the same way for your brain as it does for mine. As you can see, in order for everybody to perceive colors differently, we would also have to have completely unique systems of mixing colors, and I just don't think that could ever happen.

Still, who knows? We do know of SOME people who have different color perceptions...namely, those who are partially or completely color-blind. People with red-green color-blindness have a hard time distinguishing between those two hues, for example, so you could say that their perception is indeed different. Also, people who use hallucinagenic drugs may temporarily experience colors differently than you and I, but that effect is short-lived (barring any sort of permanent brain damage arising as the result of the drug abuse).