Re: Color system
| From: | Ben Poplawski <thebassplayer@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 17, 2004, 5:10 |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:06:23 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:
>What a pity that I belong to those ~8% of males who have
>problems perceiving the difference between certain
>contrasts a.k.a. "colourblinds". For me, it's certain
>shades of red + green, also #FFFF00 (RGB yellow) and
>#00FF00 (pure RGB green). I got it from my father, who is
>not colourblind AFAIK.
I have cousins who are colorblind--even the girls!
Which brings me to this: I don't think you can get colorblindness from your
father unless you're female. Colorblindness (AFAIK) is an X-linked
condition; that is, it's transmitted by X-chromosome and therefore
impassable from father to son.
Girls are luckier here; they need two defective chromosomes to become
colorblind. One from their mother, one from their father. Therefore,
statistically there are fewer colorblind females than males.
Buenas noches,
Ben