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Eat with our eyes

My final project is based around informing people with normal colour vision how people with a colour  vision deficiency see the world. The inspiration for this project was when a family friend was talking about how her sons colour deficiency affects the foods that he eats. Whilst researching into colour deficiency she found a web site that could convert an image from normal vision to a representation of how a colour deficient person would see the image.  The project I am engaged in at the moment, “Eat with our eyes”, aims to give a visual representation of 2 of the 4 forms of colour deficiency. 
 
Monochromacy, also known as "total colour blindness," is the lack of ability to distinguish colours, and thus the person views everything as if it were on a black and white television screen.

Deuteranomaly, this is caused by malfunctioning green cones in the person’s eye. It is the most common form of colour deficiency, affecting approximately 4/5% of the male population. This causes a person to have a diminished ability to distinguish red and green.  

 For my project I first developed a colour palate using 30 stains and oxides mixed with a ceramic slip. This was increased by varying the % of colour agent in the slip between 5% and 20%. This gives me a palate of approximately 100 colours of varying intensities. After looking at various food groups I decided to use fruit
as a vehicle for transmitting my message. Fruit has a large range of colours and shapes which make for ease of recognition. There is also a strong association between the fruit and a colour, an example of this is yellow and Lemon.

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