Test your color perception with this interactive test. The test can be found at the ismy.blue and it simply asks you to decide between shades of green and blue. Click on a button and place the color in one of the two camps.
A new test called "Is my blue your blue?" reveals how different. A new test called 'Is My Blue Your Blue?' reveals how differently we see blue and green. The test, created by neuroscientist Patrick Mineault, shows users six shades and asks them if they see blue or green.
"People's perceptions are ineffable, and it's interesting to think that we have different views," the creator of the experiment said. What your mind "sees" as blue is probably different as what I see see as blue. But that really doesn't matter, since we both agree that light between the wavelengths of 450-490 nm is blue.
Our brains may process and interpret the information differently, but the stimuli are the same for everyone. The site Is My Blue Your Blue? offers a test to see how you label shades of blue. Your screen will show a color, and you click on your opinion at the bottom.
The shades will get closer and closer until your perception can be plotted on a graph along with the results of others taking the test. Is My Blue Your Blue? A visual perception test that judges what you call blue and green and compares it with others' results. I am "bluer than 68% of the population." Now do red/pink, red/orange, and blue/purple!
Just for Fun Assessment This is a color naming test designed to measure your personal blue-green boundary. If you take the 20-second test, you'll discover that your blue may differ from what I call blue. The test is for entertainment purposes and doesn't measure anything about your vision.
Not only, even if your blue is my red and this meant something, our emotional reactions to blue would still be the same because the sky would be blue, leaves would be green, and blood, poisonous toadstools and other danger signals would still be red for both of us. The test, titled 'Is my blue your blue?' shows a series of different shades, and simply asks whether you think each is blue or green.