What are the Chances?

Talk about being in the right place at the right time with a camera! I received this in an email titled, "A Smile from God."



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Create your own Pop-Up Book

Found this on an internet bunny trail! A blank pop-up book just waiting for your creative touch! You can purchase this here.

Literal Interpretations

In the creative realm, we frequently make use of metaphors and abstractions to illustrate our point. But what if people took us literally?

Seeing Through a Different Pair of Eyes

Yes, color blindness again. For some reason, it intrigues me! The idea that certain people are seeing the world through a vastly different set of lenses is something I cannot imagine. Okay, I can imagine the idea, but I can't imagine the life.

For instance, check out the images below. The first shows normal vision, while the second shows a dichromat vision simulation.

They came from a site called Vischeck, which even MORE interestingly (hard to imagine, right?), has a Photoshop plug-in that will filter your image to simulate 3 types of color blindness. Otherwise, right on their site is an area to type in a url (or upload an image) and view it as a color blind simulation.

So check it out - how does your favorite site look through these lenses?

The Smallest Thing

Okay, you have to go to this page. It will take 15 seconds of your time. Why bother, you ask?

One: it is a perfect example of the wonders and benefits of vector art. Two: it's a really simplistic tool that biology classes should use. Three: it's an interactive graphic that easily illustrates how big a cell is compared to everyday items.

Four: can you find the carbon atom?

Unique Color Tool

There are countless color-generating tools out there, but this tool from ColorJack recently caught my eye. Though it's not the most customizable, it is the only tool that I've seen that puts you in the shoes of about 10% of the male population - those that are color blind.

It was very interesting to see how the palette changed when it was simulated for the most common red-green deficiencies (deuteranopia and deuteranomaly). My misconception was that this deficiency only affected reds and greens, making them a sickly brown, but it actually affects all the colors (which I should have known...red and green are in all sorts of colors...silly me).

The usability would be even greater if you could input your color scheme and see how it's affected, but alas, this is not so. But play around with it...it will give you an interesting perspective!

Visual Inspiration

Page after page of inspiration! Click here. Or here. Works here too. I can link. Can you?