• 2 Posts
  • 672 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

help-circle



  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlightbulbs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    The wavelength has negligible effect on shadow geometry (yes, there is chromatic aberration, refraction, interference but those are very minor in normal lighting, you need special prisms, tiny slits and perhaps lasers to really observe them). What do you even mean?

    Also, sunlight (6000K) and daylight (6500K) is pretty much the same color because direct sunlight is >90 % of daylight (the rest is the blue sky and white clouds).





  • I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, I have a red bulb too. It’s “handmade” by removing thick red rubber from a “golf ball” decorative 7W CFL and stretching it over a similarly-sized 6W 2700K LED that has instant start and higher light output (not to mention, the taut rubber won’t send glass ball shards into a mercury-vapor-filled tube if it happens to fall). It is not as monochromatic as pure red LEDs, I think it’s close to what the phosphor-based red ones emit (with a lower efficiency of course since I discard the blue and green while they turn almost all blue into red and no green) and those are marketed as cicardian too. I have to avoid looking straight into it though: the pupil is wide open because rods don’t react strongly to red light so long-wavelength (red) cones get massively overloaded and I see a green spot for a while.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlightbulbs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    The difference is not as pronounced as in the picture. If you’re used to 4000K as neutral white, yellowish white is 3000K, amber-ish white is 2700K. Only below the temperature of fire (cca 1500K) is when blue fully disappears and you get actual orange or red. And pure yellow is not a possible black body (incandescence) spectrum (that is, it does not correspond to any color temperature) so even though you can set an RGB bulb to that, buy monochromatic yellow LEDs or go under a low-pressure sodium vapor lamp, such lighting feels unnatural.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlightbulbs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    Warm white is usually 1800 K to 3000 K. What you showed is less Kelvin than the color temperature of fire (1500 K). We don’t have a color temperature word for that, but “red” works. Of course, such light has no blue component (helps control the cicardian cycle) and is pretty much monochromatic with CRI of <5.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlightbulbs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    “You want cold white or warm white?”

    “I need a cold light source, like an LED. I’m afraid the fixture would melt if I put incandescent in there.” (Yes, some E14 fixtures in cheap plastic bathroom mirrors etc. only take up to 10-20 W and have a warning sticker)


    “What, higher temperature is colder?” (It’s not their fault though that in nature, white and blue things 🧊 are generally colder than yellow and orange things 🔥)


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlightbulbs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    This scale feels wrong. 4000K is neutral white and should have no hue. Of course, that depends subjectively on what the light around is. 6000K should only be in the center if you’re outside a lot. And the difference between 6000K and 10000K is greatly exaggerated. Not even the visible portion of “infinite” Kelvin is that blue if 6000K is calibrated to white.

    Planckian Locus







  • Here’s the list of logos row by row so you don’t have to awkwardly ask what they are

    Steam (not FOSS)*
    “LL” (likely OP’s own design, not a FOSS project)*
    Zigbee
    Obsidian (not FOSS)*
    Brave
    Protonpass

    Tailscale*
    Home Assistant
    Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
    Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
    Android (not really FOSS)*
    Signal

    DigitalOcean (service)*
    Ubuntu
    Linux
    Claude (not FOSS)*
    Proxmox
    Nextcloud
    Jellyfin (rotated)

    Trilium
    Nginx
    Tabby
    Bash
    Debian (rotated)
    Docker

    NodeJS
    Python
    HomeBox
    XPipe
    PiHole
    Prometheus
    Grafana

    * not in gallery of printable sticker images