I love talking about color rendering. As some of the other people in my lab will attest: I frequently say it's the most important, or at least most interesting, problems in color science. I started my trajectory towards color science very young in the theatre. I started out singing and dancing in a few shows, [...]
Hacking LEE Color Filters
Several months ago, as part of a term project in my graduate program, I was looking for a challenging problem, in a "new" area that I previously haven't really worked in. And I wanted the problem to be "optimizer friendly" because I wanted to learn about numerical optimization. I settled on trying to answer the [...]
LED Fixture Design – Why Lime?
A common trend in fixture design among LED lighting fixtures targeted at the entertainment lighting market is the inclusion of a lime LED. The lime LED is a blue pump phosphor converted LED which results in a broadband emission. This broadband characteristic is typically avoided by most LED buyers, who are interested in producing products [...]