Museums, parks and other visual attractions around the world are providing visitors with free colorblindness glasses.
The Pompidou shows “how artists have seen or thought of their paintings, but this is also an opportunity for us to grow awareness about people who see differently,” said Augustin Pagenot, the Paris museum’s deputy head of education. Pagenot added that he envisioned incorporating the glasses into tours that would focus on particularly colorful artworks.
Don McPherson, EnChroma’s chief science officer, is the brains behind the glasses. His initial intent was to create protective eye gear for surgeons who use lasers in the operating room. But in 2010, during an ultimate frisbee game, a teammate asked to try on McPherson’s invention. For the first time in his sporting life, he could see the orange boundary cones and green field.Color blindness is caused by missing cells called cones in the retina, explained Bryce St.
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