Little contribution will be of help here, I have an array of red, green, and blue 8-bit pixel values but these were recorded by a industrial camera set to a known color temperature of 5600K, imaging a ...

Light is light, right? Not exactly. The light that comes from the overhead fluorescents at your office is probably nothing like the light that pours from your favorite chandelier at home or that of ...

As the world transitions away from ordinary incandescent lighting and toward more energy-efficient light sources, the topic of light-source color temperature has suddenly become more important.

Color temperature is defined along a second locus in the color space. This 'black body' locus is often employed in lighting measurement to describe various shades of white light by its color ...

Philips Hue's "Natural Light" has starters rolling out to more users. The new feature gives users an option to set their lighting color temperature based on the sunlight. It is worth noting that ...

Q: Just as I understand the concept of color temperature (Kelvin), now CRI is being bandied about as LEDs come into the market. What is it exactly? A: I am right there with you. From the beginning of ...

We've discussed the need for someone to come up with an inexpensive way to drive LEDs from the power line before (We Need Cheap LED Drivers). And to make them dimmable. Smoothly and reliably. And be ...

(via minutephysics) If you take a piece of white paper into different lighting conditions, it will be an objectively different color in each situation, but our brains are clever enough to make us feel ...

The color of light, expressed in Kelvins (K). The sun is about 5800 Kelvins. This is called a "temperature," because the hotter fire gets, the more it changes from a warm yellow glow to white. The ...