Meet Specimen, an iOS game that proves you can't see color as well as you thought<article>
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Specimen is a deceptively simple, utterly frustrating
iOS game that you will struggle to defeat. You will probably lose, and it’s all thanks to your terrible vision.</p><p>
The premise of the game is basic: Match friendly-looking little blobs in a petri dish to the color outside the petri dish. Only one specimen matches the exterior exactly. It seems so easy. But the blobs are all variations on the same color, and you’ll quickly realize that your perception is not quite as good as you thought it was.</p><p>
But that’s the point. Specimen creators Erica Gorochow, Sal Randazzo, and Charlie Whitney designed the app at the New Museum’s New Inc. art and technology incubator in Manhattan. The game is fun, to be sure, but it’s much more than just a silly time-waster. The end goal of Specimen is to figure out how age, gender, geographic location, and screens affect the way we see color. In its early days—Specimen launched in July—the team noticed that players were struggling with greens more than any other color.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2978143/ios-apps/meet-specimen-an-ios-game-that-proves-you-cant-see-color-as-well-as-you-thought.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Meet Specimen, an iOS game that proves you can't see color as well as you thought
