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> can we create two images on a computer monitor that appear the same to a person with normal color vision yet appear different to a colorblind person?

It surely depends on the type of colorblindness, there are many [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

If you're monochromate or dichromate, I doubt that this is possible. Monochromates or dichromates are simply missing one or two color components out of three.

If you have anomalous trichromacy, you can by creating a monitor with pixels of different colors.

In any case, I don't see how it is possible to identify a tetrachromate with a trichromate (RGB) monitor. I tried to increase the contrast and change the hue of the color test to understand what was different between the apparently similar colors but I wasn't able to find any difference.




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