colors & dogs

by Nate on Aug.21, 2004, under Uncategorized

Here’s some picture that I took in black and white:

mass art b/w

Some thing about b & w photos can be really powerful to me, maybe it’s the reduction, replacement of color. That sounds dumb, but some of the smartest things sound dumb at first, so I guess a good question would be:

If dogs are colorblind, as I’ve been told, what do they see?

Holy shit, I tried to google to find some nifty graphs and charts about the color blindness of dogs, instead there are thousands of hits with kids asking for help doing science fair projects on their dogs. But, I guess the consensus is that they (the dogs, not the kids) actually have more rods than cones then us humans which means they have greater night vision while sacrificing some of their color range. I think this was the most definitive post on this topic:

NO,dogs aren’t colorblind because my dog Max proved it because he ate two out of three dog treats that were on a blue circle.

cool, I can think of a lot of funny experiments to test the color field of dogs, oh to be 8 again!

So, I tried to colorize this picture back into colorfulness. Then I got the idea to make it all crazy-like and it being part of MassArt, I tried to make it look arty-crazy! Maybe this what dogs see instead?

massart doggy-style

Here’s some page that basically shows being color-blind would really fucking suck


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