Inkscape - Color Blindness Extension
Thu, 06/12/2008 - 06:24 — jh
- 9 kinds of vision
This is an extension for Inkscape which simulates 9 different types of vision. Again it's a color effect and therefore it can be found over at Effects->Color->Color Blindness after installation.
Supported modes:
- normal trichromatic color vision
- protanopia red-green blindness (no red cones)
- deutanopia red-green blindness (no green cones)
- tritanopia blue-yellow blindness (no blue cones)
- typical achromatopsia (no cones; rod monochromat)
- protanomaly (anomalous red cones)
- deutanomaly (anomalous green cones)
- tritanomaly (anomalous blue cones)
- atypical achromatopsia (low cones; cone monochromat)
The "normal" mode doesn't change anything at all. I decided to add it anyways, because that makes it easier to compare if you switch through the modes (if live preview is enabled). As usual it will be added to SVN if proves to be useful enough. Let me know if you find any issues.
Download: color_colorblindness.zip (2kb)
Comments
Cool!
This is cool, I think this should be added to SVN. I think it's very useful to a large group of folks. It is a really interesting use of live preview.
--Ted
Status update
The current version is unfortunately somewhat over simplified. The results of the simulation are a bit misleading in spots. It isn't good enough yet, I'd say.
I already grabbed some heavy math ridden papers which should hopefully help me to improve it. I didn't expect it to be so complicated, but in retrospect... well, I should have seen that coming.
Thanks :)
You really impressed me :).
I have this I think it's
# deutanopia red-green blindness (no green cones)
But not sure :P.
I have problims with color so I always ask some one to help me picking colors :D.
I hope this will be usefull ^.^
Heh
Well, this indirectly helps people with color blindness, because it allows designers to create usable color schemes. Or more precisely... it will do that in the future. The current formula isn't any good.
However, I'm currently writing a whole set of tools. One of those is supposed to help people with color blindness directly.
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