Cones n' rods

Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow, Pink, Orange, Green

Virus 2 is a super simple web game where you try and turn a screen full of hexagons into one color. It constantly infuriates me because I am a protanope. I have trouble with the green-yellow-red part of the visual spectrum. Hi, my name is Peter, and I'm colorblind.

I can see all those colors up there, but it's tough. The hardest two are green and orange. I can tell them apart at the bottom of the screen because they've got that purple(?) background between them. It gives me a frame of reference to see the red in the orange hexagon. Put them next to each other and I am baffled. I'm getting better at seeing the slight value difference between the two, and it's really starting to up my game. I used to just avoid them as long as I can. I don't even have to get my nose grease on it anymore! Usually. The blue, purple, and pink can be a problem if there are enough of them too, but not usually.

Why should anyone else care? They really shouldn't. I just think back to kindergarten when could never tell the difference between the purple and blue crayons. Okay, I'm sick and tired (not really of this, well yes I'm sick and tired of being colorblind, but really, I have a throat cold or some such nonsense) so Here's a quick summary of my thoughts. My brain adapted and I didn't even know it. My color photography classes really helped in the area. All those slight corrections in levels of cyan, magenta and yellow helped train me to use other colors I can see as a point of reference to make an educated guess as to what the color I'm looking at actually is.

The phrase, "Hey Peter, what color is this?" still makes me angry.