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I'm color-blind and I see absolutely no differences between the original and the modified images.

So I assume this is working.

Same here - I actually checked the comments to be sure this wasn't a joke, actually. It's just a series of identical pictures to me. I guess I'm a born Van Gogh fan.

(I did a wall mural once involving a large green sea monster; I had a friend tell me when the shadows were getting red so I could compensate back to "normal-brown" - they all looked fine to me.)

I'm not color-blind and I must say modified images look more realistic to me (e.g. normal skin color instead of sick-person greenish). Overall colors are lighter to my eye as well.

I can honestly say that this is the most accurate simulation of my color blindness I have ever seen. Usually I can tell a difference between the two if I look back and forth, and almost always when I flip between the images quickly. But in this case I popped them open in two tabs and switched back and forth repeatedly, and could only notice minute changes if I looked very carefully at specific parts of the painting.

I was going to comment that the article was quite far fetched, since I saw almost no difference... and then I read your comment.

Edit : Oh shit. Hi Greg. Fucking genetics. It's Dad fault.

Likewise. The left and right versions look close to identical to me.

As am I, although I saw significant difference on the Harvest. The rest I couldn't really tell, but they were much busier color wise.

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