Phoebe, I'm red green blind myself, and it is not as straight forward as it sounds. The problem is that we "see" red and green despite lacking one of the color receptors (I actually prepared a figure using red and green once and got a referee comment that red/green blind people would have difficulties with - which I could attest to being wrong...). We can distinguish between bright green and bright red! But in between, things are sketchy. Our brains learned to associate certain gray levels with either green or red (e.g. on our old BW TV, I did see all the grass as green, I was flabbergasted at the age of 6 to learn that our neighbor did not see the colors in our BW TV; Also, I called one of my class mates in junior high on his ugly green jeans, only to learn they were washed out black). My advice: Convert the image to gray scales. If you can't tell the difference, people with color seeing problems can't tell them apart. Actually, chose your color scheme so it gives good contrast in a gray scale image. This also should take care of the much rarer blue deficiency; and it might cut down on reproduction cost - as everything should be reproducible on a BW copy machine.
HTH, Jens > I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C > in a pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved > telling me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed). > Is there a handy by-atom coloring scheme I can recommend that works for > the red-green color blind? > thanks, > "Professor Rice" > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Phoebe A. Rice > Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > The University of Chicago > > 773 834 1723; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/ > > http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp >
