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Color in lighting can refer to many different aspects, effects or issues. Some of them are discussed or presented below, including links to some great sites for learning more about light, vision and color. If you have suggestions, comments or recommended sites, please contact ALI
back to the topJ. Knox and D. Keith presented a paper at the 2003 IESNA Annual Conference discussing the interaction of sources' radiation with surfaces, evaluated using conventional luminous units and also for color dofference measured by CIE L*a*b*. The Powerpoint presentation is here (ppt format, 4.2 MB).
Among the findings for this paper are that compared to MH sources providing the same illuminance, HPS and incandescent sources make red, orange and yellow surfaces brighter. The reflectance values for the HPS and incandescent (such as headlights) sources, using the recommended calculational procedure, are around 50% higher for those colors than the values for the MH sources. The investigation also reports that the color differences for sign color combinations of yellow and black or orange and black were greater under HPS and incandescent than for the MH sources. Furthermore the color differences for yellow pavement marking and asphalt or concrete surfaces were greater under HPS and incandescent than under MH sources. This shows that spectral consideration of color effects recommends the use of HPS and incandescent sources for roadway tasks that include signs including caution, construction and of course the traffic control signs such as STOP and YIELD.
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