A BOX OF CRAYONS

Color. Have you ever met the kind of person who insists,"See that mountain in the distance? Isn't it a beautiful shade of dark violet tinged slightly with deep navy, a hint of teal, and a few splashes of cornflower blue like the Crayola crayon color?"

And you say, "You mean that purple mountain over there?"

Do you know someone who seems to see colors you don't?

If this person is female, she may be one of the 2% to 3% of the world's women are tetrachromats, who perhaps see 100 million colors, thanks to their genes , according to Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"It may be impossible for us trichromats to imagine what a 4, -color world would look like. But mathematics alone suggest the difference would be astounding, said Jay Neitz, a renowned color vision researcher at th Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Gabriele Jordan of Newcastle University in Great Britain conducts genetic tetrachromat research. To identify a true tetrachromat, "Dr . Jordan started working backwards from certain "color blind" boys to their mothers."

"About 8% of the world's men have color deficiency, which is the term vision researchers prefer to color blindness."

"Most of them inherit two red or two green cones along with the standard blue cone, making it impossible for them to distinguish between red and green peppers, or tell how well-done a steak is, or pick out matching clothes."

Thanks to Vischeck, computer simulation software, you can gain a glimpse of how color deficient males might see this blog page or any other website, or image file.

Vischeck also has a program, Tiny Eyes, that lets you see the world the way babies do the first six months of life.

The world can be seen many different ways.