Test your color perception with this simple test on your mobile, not everyone sees it the same way

The importance of color is such that companies like Meta are investing a lot of time in developing new proposals to customize the color theme of the WhatsApp chat application itself. Patrick Mineault, a researcher in ndollarscience and artificial intelligence, designed this web application after check that he sees green and blue differently than his wife.

Y has a scientific basis Because the eyes have three types of color receptor cells called cones, they are sensitive to wavelengths of light that correspond to the three primary colors: red, green, and blue. There are some small differences in how they are distributed that affect how a person perceives color.

He the turquoise color is just the one found on the border between green and blue in the light spectrum; an intermediate color that allows us to classify how each person’s brain interprets this combination of wavelengths and exactly the one used in this test which asks that the colors be categorized sequentially.

As can be read on the web application, Colors are often represented in the HSL color space (hue, saturation and brightness). Hue 120 is green and hue 240 is blue. In fact, at the end of the test, when it gives a score and a graph, it indicates whether the user sees turquoise as green or blue. The test focuses between shades 150 and 210, which go from blue to green.

The test can be performed from a mobile phone or the screen of a PC or laptop. It starts with a simple question: Is my blue your blue? and the correct background color. At the bottom left is the option to select whether it appears green with “This is green” or “This is blue” for the blue color on the opposite side.

SO several questions will be asked following to answer if the color generated on the screen is blue or green. Just once the test is finished, the result will be proposed to indicate a number and a percentage. In the tests carried out by EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre, it was found that the limit is at tone 179, bluer than 82% of the population.

You can access the web application from this link and was created by Patrick Mineault, a ndollarscience and artificial intelligence researcher, as a project to provide an answer to the little discussions that can arise about whether turquoise looks green or blue.