My Protanoptic Life

The Website: Protanoptic.com

This website, protanoptic.com, was made in order for me to have a place to track my trip to SE Asia and share my photography with the people who want to keep up on it beyond just looking at the images.  Because it’s photography related, it is not protanopic, but Protanoptic.  It will continue being a place to find photos I’ve taken and information about what I’m up to.

The Condition: Protanopia

Protanopia is the condition of being red-green color blind, which I am.  People often ask me why I can take such colorful photographs if I’m colorblind, and to that I say that the world has color, even if I can’t see it all.  I just photograph it and let it work itself out.

Color Blindness Resources

I have a series of photos describing how colorblindness works and how colorblind people see.

The Reverse Colorblind Test shows some of the benefits of being colorblind.

Color Oracle is an application that will show you what your screen looks like to a color blind person. In my experience is mostly accurate except in cases of extreme saturation. Of course your monitor’s color calibration will affect the results as well.

DanKam is an augmented reality app for color blind people that helps them see the colors that are normally difficult for them to see.

We Are Colorblind is a library with patterns and examples for anyone who designs, develops or is in another way involved with creating websites or content for the web.