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Take one cone away — go from being what scientists call a trichromat to a dichromat — and the number of possible combinations drops a factor of 100, to 10,000.
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Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2012
The company prefers to describe its glasses as more of an assistive device for those, like Veronin, who are mild-to-moderate anomalous trichromats: the glasses should help them better discriminate colors in the red/green dimension.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2018
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Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2012
The company prefers to describe its glasses as more of an assistive device for those, like Veronin, who are mild-to-moderate anomalous trichromats: the glasses should help them better discriminate colors in the red/green dimension.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2018
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“Trichromat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trichromat. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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trichromat
noun
tri·chro·mat
ˈtrī-krō-ˌmat, (ˈ)trī-ˈ 
: an individual with normal color vision requiring that three primary colors be mixed in order to match the perceived spectrum
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