Sunday 27 December 2015

Daltonism | Past and future

In our poster in the location corresponding to the focus blue LED we decided to examine the condition of blindness which is directly related to the color and therefore with light.

The inability to distinguish colors has the medical designation dyschromatopsia. This change in vision is usually known for color blindness.

This designation is a tribute to the chemist John Dalton who described this for the first time. This scientist, who lived in the eighteenth century was a prestigious chemist who made discoveries and extensive range that being a carrier of this visual defect, described it perfectly.

There are three main colors: blue, green and red. On the one hand the junction of these three colors gives white, and on the other hand all the other colors or shades are the sum of these three colors.
It is understood that an error or defect in a cell type refers to one of three colors, resulting in a defect of this particular color, but also have consequences for the composition of all other composite colors and where the missing color can not cooperate.

As such, we also made reference to ColorAdd which is a national project and aims to represent all colors using only symbols.

We also decided to join two important technological advances in the field of technology related to color, building a bridge between the past and the future, creating a renewed version of Newton's disk-bases in the ColorAdd.