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The world.

How the world looks to a person with a red/green color deficit (deuteranopia).

How the world looks to a person with a blue/yellow color deficit (tritanopia).

earth from 
space image earth, 
deuteranope earth, 
tritanope

Some colorful hats.

As seen by a person with deuteranopia.

As seen by a person with protanopia, another form of red/green deficit.

hats 
image hats, deuteranope hats, protanope

This is an Ishihara plate commonly used to check for red/green color blindness

This is what a red/green color-blind person might see. Note that the digit (3) is practically invisible.

original image as 
seen by a deuteranope

People with color deficiencies may have difficulty distinguishing certain colors (e.g., a red/green color deficiency means that reds and greens are more difficult to distinguish). But as this photo demonstrates, many other colors are just as distinguishable to a person with a color deficiency as to someone with normal color vision.

Poppies and cyclamen.

Protanope.

Tritanope.

poppies: 
original image protanope poppies tritanope poppies