how will you describe a rainbow to a blindman from birth??

Answer 1

perhaps I would have him touch several different textured items in the shape of a rainbow. I think that would be the closest thing to explaining it. It's like texture for your eyes.

Answer 2

kind of like the first answer, but a little different and more detailed.

I would make a rainbow on paper or something, and have different textures for the different colors. but to explain how the colors looked, would be hard. my best try would be something like "feel this texture, we shal call it red, notice how tight the particles are to each other. you can feel it very clearly, right? Now feel this texture, this we will call purple, notice how you can barely feel the texture. this is about the same thing as in a real rainbow, we can see red very clearly, but for most people the purple in the rainbow is hard to see." I would have each color a different texture and some easier to feel than others, just how we see a rainbow and some colors are harder for us to see.

Answer 3

I would explain it scientifically. I don't know about blind from birth, though, whether he even has a concept of color. If not, this could conceivably give it to him. You know, describe a prism, let him feel the smooth glassy surfaces and what angles they meet, and then describe the way it breaks up the light. Talk in terms of wavelengths, and then say that these wavelengths are perceived as colors by the cones in the eyes. (I think it's the cones, not the rods; right?) Then describe each color in terms of something with which he is familiar: Red for apples, orange for oranges, yellow for bananas, etc.

Answer 4

Using different textures to describe the different colors would be good but I would add taste to the colors. Either with different flavors of jello or icecream. I would set out jello squares in an arch starting with cherry, orange, lemon, lime, blueberry, grape, blackberry. Then the person could feel the shape of a rainbow and taste the different rays. Hmmm good!

Answer 5

I'd love to know the answer to THAT- myself. I wouldn't know where to start. I mean, -how do you explain a color to someone who's never seen any? At BEST- you can describe the SHAPE of a rainbow...-but beyond THAT- it's beyond me...

Answer 6

You could say that it's an arch and that's about it. If a person is blind from birth then they have no concept of color...so it wouldn't do any good to try to explain it.

Answer 7

Use an example of a symphony playing. Different istruments have different frequencies, but together they can make beautiful harmony.

Answer 8

Moreover, how will you explain/describe the concept of sight?