Is it possible that your eyes see different colors?

Question

Please help me prove my point....
My little brothers friend is driving me crazy because he says that one eye will see more blue colors and one eye will see more red colors (with out 3D glasses), and that this is how 3D glasses works.
I know he is wrong, but help me find more proof.
Thanks!

so basicly he thinks that when looking at the something white, one eye will see a slighly blue color, and the other will see a slightly red color

he says his proof is looking at a sheet of paper

Answer 1

No, no, no. You have totally missed the First Law of Science. Never go to the trouble of proving something if you can get someone -else- to prove it. Get him to cite references for his claim and tell him you won't believe him until he does ☺


Doug

Answer 2

Well, I've noticed the same effect. When I close my left eye, I see a slight blue tint. When I close my right eye, I see a slight red tint.

A difference between your left and right sides isn't unusual. I noticed that when I compared the difference in weight between a quarter and a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, it made a difference which hand held which coin.

It should be noted that the red/blue difference in your eyes isn't why 3D glasses work. They work because the film has different pictures superimposed on them, one in red and the other in blue. The red filter on the glasses blocks the red picture and the blue filter blocks the blue picture. So, each eye sees two slightly different things and your brain interprets this as a 3D image.

Having said all this, I agree with the poster who said that it was up to your brother's friend to prove his claim rather than for you to prove him wrong.

MistWing SilverTail

Answer 3

Hi,

I don't know whether this will help you settle the little brother problem, but the answer is yes.

Let me explain that bald statement a little...the answer is 'possibly yes'. I am colour blind (sorry, English spelling) and know that my eyes, although I see some colour, do not see colour the same as other people's eyes.

They also do not see colour equally. Inside the eyes there are receptors that collect and transmit visual signals through the eye to the brain, where it is interpreted and 'appears' as a coloured picture in your mind.

There are two types of receptor 'Rods', which receive and transmit form and shape and 'Cones' which do the same for colour. I have less cones and different amounts in each eye, which means my eyes transmit a different 'picture' to my brain than does yours, for example.

This can be a slight problem for me, as I do see some colour, but it doesn't look the same to me as to other people. The problem arises when I try to paint (I'm a watercolourist) and I have to paint the colours I think SHOULD be there, rather than the colours I see.

As I said, I don't know whether this helps with 'little brother' (but when did anything help with them?) but is as clear an explanation as I can come up with.

Good luck,

BobSpain

Answer 4

This is a case of failure to communicate. I do not believe that your brothers friend is telling you that each eye sees different colors. What he is telling you is that in some glasses used to allow us to see movies in 3D the lenses are colored to diminish the amount of two different colors that are allowed to go through the lenses. The left lens blocks one color and the right color blocks the other. In this way the film contains the image in one color as though it were seen with the left eye and in the other color as though it were seen with the right eye. In this way the left eye is able to see the image it needs to see and the right eye sees a different image.
In modern 3D movies the lenses are polarized differently and all colors are able to be projected.

Answer 5

find several pictures in red and blue only, tell him to close one eye and ask which color he sees prominently, then do so with the other eye. do this with all the pictures and he should find that they all look the same through either eye.

Answer 6

Sorry, I don't really understand, but tell him that 3D glasses work because the lenses are tinted that color and that's why you see that color.