Can the color blind see blaze orange.

[DeerHunter]

I was out hunting the other day, and there were a few other folks out there as well. I got to thining, I'm pretty much invisible in the brush, minus the blaze orange hat which stick out like a sore thumb.

Then I got to thinking what if one of these hunters is color blind? Not making fun of anyone, just kind of made me uneasy.

[manxxcatt]

no. scary, huh?

[alien319]

Actually most people that are color blind can see it. Most people that are color blind aren't able to see blue and green or green and red. I say most. not all.

[fmrleatherneck]

Same kind of thing I've always heard.

MOST forms of "color blind" can still see blaze orange. I've known several people that were one kind of "color blind" or another, but never thought to test that theory!

[manxxcatt]

I was short with my first answer, but, yes, people with the type that has problems with yellows and reds, actually see orange as green. My uncle bob had this problem. He was an avid hunter, he was just extra extra careful.

[msanford]

Im am very very color blind and yes color blind people can see orange. The biggest problem i have hunting is seeing the deer lol really if a deer walks out into a feild standing next to the woods ill never see it they just blend together if i see something moving then i can make out what it is but if i dont see that movement i will never see it. yes it sucks to be me lol no telling how many have gotten away.

[manxxcatt]

flogging a dead horse here, but


There are many types of color blindness. The most common are red-green hereditary photoreceptor disorders, but it is also possible to acquire color blindness through damage to the retina, optic nerve, or higher brain areas. Higher brain areas implicated in color processing include the parvocellular pathway of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, and visual area V4 of the visual cortex. Acquired color blindness is generally unlike the more typical genetic disorders. For example, it is possible to acquire color blindness only in a portion of the visual field but maintain normal color vision elsewhere. Some forms of acquired color blindness are reversible. Transient color blindness also occurs (very rarely) in the aura of some migraine sufferers.

The different kinds of inherited color blindness result from partial or complete loss of function of one or more of the different cone systems. When one cone system is compromised, dichromacy results. The most frequent forms of human color blindness result from problems with either the middle or long wavelength sensitive cone systems, and involve difficulties in discriminating reds, yellows, and greens from one another. They are collectively referred to as "red-green color blindness", though the term is an over-simplification and is somewhat misleading. Other forms of color blindness are much more rare. They include problems in discriminating blues from yellows, and the rarest forms of all, complete color blindness or monochromacy, where one cannot distinguish any color from grey, as in a black-and-white movie or photograph.

In the red-green color blindness, colors in the red spectrum, as well as yellow, and we all know red+yellow=orange, is hard to distinguish from green, and vice-versa. and lessee, bushes are....green. grass is....green.