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- Title
Orienteers with poor colour vision require more than cunning running.
- Authors
Long, Jennifer A; Junghans, Barbara M
- Abstract
Highly detailed colour coded maps are used in the sport of orienteering to enable competitors to navigate from one check point to another and to provide guidance on the nature of the terrain to be traversed. The colours are defined by the International Orienteering Foundation (IOF) and are said to have been chosen so they will not be confused by competitors who have abnormal colour vision. However, there are anecdotal reports that individuals with colour vision defects do have problems with the colour coding.
- Publication
Clinical & experimental optometry, 2008, Vol 91, Issue 6, p515
- ISSN
0816-4622
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1444-0938.2008.00294.x