When we discuss colour in filmmaking, we're usually interested being – well – correct. But we might also talk about the steel blue of night, an amber sunset, or the greenish tinge that comes from ...

Photometers or light meters are radiometers that include a filter and photodiode and responds based on the average human eye: the CIE 1924 luminosity function V λ. However, the light sensitive diode ...

We now take LED lighting for granted, but acheiving a specific colour is actually quite complicated. Why is that? At some point, reasonably soon, full-colour mixing will become more the rule than the ...

High-brightness (HB) LEDs continue to increase in popularity due to the numerous advantages they offer when compared to the conventional lighting solutions. One of the advantages of HB LEDs is their ...

You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint and yellow paint makes green ...

How do two colors mix to make a new color? Answer: Think of light as a wave travelling from one place to another, with different colors produced by variation in the distance between peaks of the wave ...

Recycling 3D filament is a great idea in theory, and we come across homemade filament extruders with some regularity, but they do have some major downsides when it comes to colored filaments. If you ...

Ogden Rood's textbook explaining the science of optics and colour mixing triggered an unexpectedly vivid response from the radical artists of the 1880s. The French Impressionist painters referred to ...