Do you have an eye for this chart?

This chart often showcased at your Physician’s helps you evaluate two important colours in your life.

Colors have become all the more important since the release of the purple heart honor of the United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.

Amongst the three primary colors across Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary color schemes of art, RED. Under the color theory Complementary colors– are colors found directly across from each other on the color wheel with red and green as one major classifier.

For some people, roses are not red but violets are still blue. Many people suffer from a type of color blindness called “red green color blindness” and it is just like it sounds – a condition that confuses people’s visions of different shades of red and green states, Colourmax.

Ishihara Chart or Ishihara Test a color perception test for red-green color deficiencies, the first in a class of successful color vision tests called pseudo-isochromatic plates (“PIP”). It was named after its designer, Dr. Shinobu Ishihara, a professor at the University of Tokyo, who first published his tests in 1917.

Pseudo-isochromatic plates (“PIP”) have been used since when ever to evaluate Young Pilot Aspirants for their ability to distinguish between the red and green else, They are Grounded! The online cite goes on to state, “The normal human eye has 6 to 7 million cone cells and 100 to 130 million rod cells. The blue, green and red cones in the center of the retina – the part of the eye that receives images from the lens – converts images into to electrical signals in the brain. A person with normal trichromatic vision can identify over 7 million colors, however 1 in 12 of men and 1 in 20 women in North America have some type of color deficiency. This means that they cannot perceive certain parts of the color spectrum, and in many cases they will see indistinct grey tones instead of the actual color.”

From a medical perspective, visual stimuli are critical to the development of normal vision. Any ocular process that significantly interferes with or inhibits the development of the visual pathways may result in amblyopia.

For some quick facts, The prevalence of color vision deficiency varies according to sex and race/ethnicity. In a population-based cross-sectional study (the Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study), the prevalence of color vision deficiency was 1.6 percent among 4005 children (37 to 72 months of age) who were able to complete color vision testing.

Color vision testing can be achieved with a variety of tests. Pseudo-isochromatic plates, such as those available with the Ishihara and the Hardy-Rand-Rittler tests, are commonly used color vision screening tests. More advanced tests, such as the Farnsworth D-15 and Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue tests, may be used to better characterize a deficit noted on screening tests.

Additional information about color blindness is available through the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and Colour Blind Awareness.