Colourblindness Research

Research Stage;

So in the past week I have managed to speak to David Flatla, another lecturer who worked with David Flatla named David Lyons.  They have both done some big research into colourblindness and this is interesting because David Flatla has protanopia colourblindness (red deficiency) and yet he was creating different types of ishiars tests for David Lyons for his different projects he featured on his tumblr page which will be linked at the end of this post.

I also managed to speak to someone from the opticians in Dundee and while speaking to them I learnt the true names of the different colourblindness, Protanopia, Deutanopia (green deficiency) tritanopia (Blue/Yello deficiency) and mono-chromacy (unable to see any colours).  I also learnt that ishiara tests are the most common form of testing but it doesn't tell you what type you are it just tells you that you have a deficiency.  I the person who is colourblind wishes to know which type and how severe it is you would need to go to a speciallist and take what is called a the Farnsworth test.  What the farnsworth test is where you are given a range of different shades and you are asked to put them back in order, and this is a most effective way to determind what type of colourblindness you have is.

After speaking to David Flatla, David Lyons and the opticans, I did some research myself just to get some facts on colourblindness.  For instances colourblindness effects one in every one hundred males and one in every one thousand females, in a designers terms this works out that 8% of a designers possible clientele have the chance of being colourblind.  The colourblindnesses you can be born with are Protanopia, Deutanopia or Mono-Chromacy, Tritanopia is normally obtained through illness or trauma.  So these were alot of factors to think about.

David Lyons Tumblr Page;
http://graphicdesignfortheblind.tumblr.com/