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Anyone here have yellow LED light, and light-green paint?
I wanna know what blue light + yellow light makes. Blue paint and yellow paint make green paint.
Many websites incorrectly say blue light and yellow light make white light. Because yellow light is 50% red and 50% green light, and they argue red
blue and green light makes white light. But a light that is 50% blue and 50% yellow is actually 50% blue, 25% red, and 25% green, so that doesn't make
white. It's not the same as 33/33/33.
This is where red light and blue light make magenta, rather than purple. But I can't find on the Internet for someone that made the blue and yellow
counterpart. So looking for someone that has yellow light.
[img]https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=0&aid=105108[/img]
Now, red light and green light make yellow light, but what does red paint and green paint make? Well, if you look at these 2 color pinwheels, the
"spectral" green light and "green paint" are not the same paint. The green paint, is a much darker green. Spectral-green is more of a lime-green. So
I'm wondering what color paint do you get if you mix red paint with lime-light green paint?
What's so ironic to me is how red light and red paint always seem to be the same red, and to some extent, same with blue paint and blue spectral
light, but I've never seen green paint being expressed the same as spectral green light.
Has anyone experienced with liquids with dyes as colors? Do they follow the paint model or light model?
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Now, HTML has an answer to this, but I don't know how realistic it is to life.
HTML's RGB(255,0,255) is magenta. But, if you use RGB(128,0,128) that is a purple or dark purple.
ChatGPT claims the 1st is 100% red and 100% blue, whereas the 2nd is 50% red and 50% blue...
1 seems to be the light model, and the other the paint model.
I already tried with blue and yellow light. Which would be 50% blue 25% red 25% green. But neither turned out to be white-ish or green-ish.
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The way we view color is much more complex than just the idea of pure hues and wavelengths. Our eyes also do not see color linearly, and the color we
percieve is affected by a lot of other factors.
This video might be a good starting point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTKP0Y9MVus
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The first white LEDs were made using a blue LED and a yellow phosphor, making a rather bad 'whitish' LED. This only works because of the rather broad
overlap between red and green color receptors. "yellow" around 560nm is picked up by both receptors, add in some blue and you have the perception of
white. Color rendering is awful though, because of the way many objects reflect different colors - e.g. a 'red' object may look dark if if does not
reflect 560nm yellow light.
For a deep dive into modern LED lighting :YujiLED
These guys make fantastic White LEDs - i used some to create the lighting for my wifes art studio.
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Quote: Originally posted by Neal  | Now, HTML has an answer to this, but I don't know how realistic it is to life.
HTML's RGB(255,0,255) is magenta. But, if you use RGB(128,0,128) that is a purple or dark purple.
ChatGPT claims the 1st is 100% red and 100% blue, whereas the 2nd is 50% red and 50% blue...
1 seems to be the light model, and the other the paint model.
I already tried with blue and yellow light. Which would be 50% blue 25% red 25% green. But neither turned out to be white-ish or green-ish.
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It all depends on intensity. Yellow light and blue light can be viewed as white light.
Full intensity yellow light on 8 bits per color is (r, g, b) = (255, 255, 0)
Full intensity blue is (r, g, b) = (0, 0, 255)
Mixing them is adding them and this gives (r, g, b) = (255, 255, 255), which is white.
The yellow light is brighter to our eyes than the blue light, but this is not because it has 2 times level 255 for a primary color. Our eyes are more
sensitive to red and green light than to blue light, we perceive them as brighter at the same intensity.
A 50% red + 50% green can of course also be (128, 128, 0), but this is not bright yellow, it looks darker, more brownish. If you mix that with full
intensity blue, I expect a pale blue color, not purely white.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Twospoons | The first white LEDs were made using a blue LED and a yellow phosphor, making a rather bad 'whitish' LED. This only works because of the rather broad
overlap between red and green color receptors. "yellow" around 560nm is picked up by both receptors, add in some blue and you have the perception of
white. Color rendering is awful though, because of the way many objects reflect different colors - e.g. a 'red' object may look dark if if does not
reflect 560nm yellow light.
For a deep dive into modern LED lighting :YujiLED
These guys make fantastic White LEDs - i used some to create the lighting for my wifes art studio.
[Edited on 18-2-2025 by Twospoons] |
Actually I wasn't going to believe what you said until Woelen brought up that our blue cones in our eyes don't work the same as red and green cones.
And in your map, shows the blue cone further out than the others.
The fact that we have blue cones, instead of violet, is interesting. For 1 thing, it explains:
-In the Doppler effect, shouldn't it be red and violet shift, not red and blue shift?
-And is it really red green and blue light to make white light, when it should be red green and violet light?
After all, green is halfway in the spectrum between red and violet.
1 thing I will later experiment with are liquids, and food dyes. In big chain grocery stores, sell dyes, that are red blue green and yellow. And dye
it to water. And see if mixing equal amounts leads more to the paint theory or light theory.
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may I suggest:
Cyan magenta and yellow printer ink
printers do a pretty god job at overlaying inks (colour printing)
the inks could be mixed in a solvent,
sometimes the solvent changes the optical properties
some liquids have a different colour with transmitted light than with reflected light.
(try water, alcohol, cooking oil, gasoline...whatever you can get)
an old crt colour monitor or tv tube could be used as an rgb light source
rgb led strip lights are a convenient bulk source of additive colour light
I learned with watercolour paints
then filament bulbs and coloured cellophanes.
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This idea that red+green+blue = white is a very anthropocentric thing - because human eyes have receptors centered on the red, green and blue and
thats how we perceive and interpret color. Bees would have a different idea of what makes white, as they can see UV. The Mantis shrimp has 12
different color receptors, ranging from deep UV to near IR. "White" for the mantis shrimp would need all of those colors.
True white light contains every visible wavelength, not just a few select ones.
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You know I should ask this question while we're on it. It's about the color pinwheel. That what 1 absorbs for a color, reflects for another color.
But why is the color pinwheel only in the visible spectrum? I'd like to see someone make a color pinwheel that extends from say, IR to UV.
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Oh, so you're really interested the difference between additive and subtractive primaries, wrt to color mixing?
UV and IR don't really come into play here, probably because you would not notice any real difference between UV at 360nm and UV at 400nm, as only the
blue receptor is affected. Likewise at the red end 750nm and 700nm would look the same, as only the red receptor is affected. So the color pinwheel
really only needs to encompass blue though red to represent the color space we can perceive.
I think you should read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
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| Quote: Originally posted by Twospoons | Oh, so you're really interested the difference between additive and subtractive primaries, wrt to color mixing?
UV and IR don't really come into play here, probably because you would not notice any real difference between UV at 360nm and UV at 400nm, as only the
blue receptor is affected. Likewise at the red end 750nm and 700nm would look the same, as only the red receptor is affected. So the color pinwheel
really only needs to encompass blue though red to represent the color space we can perceive.
I think you should read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space
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No that's not my question.
My question is what would stop something that absorbs IR or UV, to reflect visible light?
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It was Eddington or Hubble (I'd bet on the former) who gave these names to Doppler effect in light. Nothing special in them, except for blue being
more noticeable than violet. I believe that's why Eddington chose blue over violet.
| Quote: Originally posted by Neal | | But why is the color pinwheel only in the visible spectrum? I'd like to see someone make a color pinwheel that extends from say, IR to UV.
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The purpose of the color wheel is to present the visible colors; if they're not visible, you can't present them. We can see some short IR and long UV,
so they end up grouped to the red and violet ends of the spectrum. As for the rest, what color is the color of IR? Red, say, but what shade of red?
What is the color of UV? What about X-rays and microwaves?
Its molecular/atomic structure. Take water, acetone, and ethanol. They are transparent, yet you can distinguish them by their absorption spectra.
Or metals. Most metals are sort of gray because they reflect most of the visible light and absorb wavelengths that we can't usually see (IR and UV),
and we don't miss what we can't see. Gold absorbs blue, so the reflected light is yellowish. Copper absorbs green/blue, hence its reddish appearance.
Newton reported many experiments with prisms and colors in his Optics that you would be able to repeat. Small prisms, like the ones used in
binoculars, should do. Or you can make some yourself. Go to a glazier's, ask or buy some scraps of plate glass, make wedges with them and fill with
water. Glue a cover in them so they don't leak. You can also pay the glazier to make them for you. Or use microscope slides.
Check out Fowles' Modern Optics, chapters 6 and 8, for the more technical side.
I have a bunch of spectra of LEDs and gas discharge lamps that I took for an Experimental Physics class in 2019. Fun stuff if you're into that kind of
thing.
Edit: I grouped the LED spectra in a single plot. The Intensity scale is arbitrary. The spectra were measured using an OceanOptics
spectrometer USB4000. The LEDs were the ordinary types. The plot was generated by Spectragryph 1.2, where I chose a grey background for better
visibility. The gas discharge lamps will be attached later in PDF.
Notice that the white LED uses a phosphor, like @Twospoons said. We see a peak in the blue region and a hump in the green/yellow region.
Edit2: I processed the spectra of the gas discharge lamps.
Attachment: Gas discharge lamp spectra.pdf (483kB)
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Edit3: Minor correction.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bnull |
Its molecular/atomic structure. Take water, acetone, and ethanol. They are transparent, yet you can distinguish them by their absorption spectra.
Or metals. Most metals are sort of gray because they reflect most of the visible light and absorb wavelengths that we can't usually see (IR and UV),
and we don't miss what we can't see. Gold absorbs blue, so the reflected light is yellowish. Copper absorbs green/blue, hence its reddish appearance.
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So basically, it's just a coincidence that all the non-visible absorbance also reflects non-visible light?
Like absorbing near-IR, must reflect far-IR, and absorbing far-IR, may reflect near-IR, and vice versa with UV?
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Nothing. Perfectly possible. BaSO4 is a great example. Reflective in the visible spectrum and absorbs long wave IR.
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Okay, I got several answers.
Finally got ChatGPT to generate a color that is 50% blue and yellow, as well as paint color of red and lime-green. The 1st looked pretty gray, 2nd
looked more sunset-orange.
Now when I Google what is the most visible color, I didn't get yellow. I got green. But I found 1 Youtube video that said chartreuse green, which is
555 nm.
And so, there is a misconception. The red cones are not actually red, their peak is actually more at yellow. And so, the halfway point between green
and yellow, is chartreuse green, 555 nm.
And it makes sense that out red cones are not actually red because we can't see into the IR.
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Anyone have any thoughts on this? Not sure if this can be proofread.
I asked ChatGPT, specifically without saying "paint or light" to see if it would ask me, but it didn't.
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One problem you will have with this is you are limited by the phosphors used in your LCD monitor. e.g an LCD can't generate true yellow, only fake it
with red + green.
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you can buy led colours from ir to uv that do not use phosphors hence have a moderately narrow spectrum
(eg kingbright L-53SYC: 590 +/- 14 nm, a typical yellow led)
Typically, if an led forward operating voltage is below 3v then it does not use phosphors,
so it will emit near monochromatic light,
of a wavelength where the eV of photons is a little less than the operating voltage at low current.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Neal | | I asked ChatGPT, specifically without saying "paint or light" to see if it would ask me, but it didn't. |
Don't rely too much on ChatGPT to find answers. There's no easy way to tell if they're correct or not when you don't know beforehand.
I suggest you look it up in a color science or colorimetry journal, perhaps something by the Optical Society of America (it's now called Optica, https://www.optica.org/). Optica (the OSA magazine or journal) used to have something on the physical aspects of color sensing. The few numbers I
have, at least (they're buried somewhere in my papers).
On a side note, you can see if an LED has a phosphor by hooking it up to a multimeter in the volts range and shining a flashlight on it. A reading
close to the operating voltage (0.5-0.7 V below it, I guess) means no phosphor, zero or close to means phosphor. I had to sort out LEDs for a project
that used them as photodetectors; the project flopped when pandemics came.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bnull | | Quote: Originally posted by Neal | | I asked ChatGPT, specifically without saying "paint or light" to see if it would ask me, but it didn't. |
Don't rely too much on ChatGPT to find answers. There's no easy way to tell if they're correct or not when you don't know beforehand.
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That's why I just
"Earlier when I asked you to send me 3 square colors, of light red dark blue and dark red light blue, you didn't ask me whether it was for the "light"
model of colors, or the "paint" model of colors."
And ChatGPT replies that it was the light model. So it assumes light model when not asked.
Btw, here's something contradicting.
Let's go back to that color pinwheel in inorganic chemistry. It seems to use the paint model rather than light model (spectrum).
Remember I said if something appears yellow to us, we don't know whether it reflects yellow spectral light, or reflects red & green light in a
50/50 ratio? Well, let's look at the color pinwheel.
For reflecting yellow, is absorbing purple. Well guess what, purple isn't a color in the spectrum. Violet is. But the color pinwheel doesn't seem to
have violet since it seems to be of the paint model.
That could be that reflecting yellow is never the same as spectral yellow and reflecting yellow is only due to red/green 50/50 ratios.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Neal |
That could be that reflecting yellow is never the same as spectral yellow and reflecting yellow is only due to red/green 50/50 ratios.
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The only way to now for sure is to use a spectrometer, diffraction grating or prism to analyse the light.
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Wow check this out, I asked ChatGPT to output a square of 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels, that are red and blue pixels back to back. The 1st row to be
red-blue-red-blue and the 2nd row to be blue-red-blue-red.
The interesting thing is, it looks like darker purple. But after 1 zoom in, it looks light purple. And doesn't seem to change upon zooming in some
more, but after zooming in you can see that it is red and blue pixels. And it matches the 1st red-purple mix it made a bit.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Neal | Let's go back to that color pinwheel in inorganic chemistry. It seems to use the paint model rather than light model (spectrum).
Remember I said if something appears yellow to us, we don't know whether it reflects yellow spectral light, or reflects red & green light in a
50/50 ratio? Well, let's look at the color pinwheel.
For reflecting yellow, is absorbing purple. Well guess what, purple isn't a color in the spectrum. Violet is. But the color pinwheel doesn't seem to
have violet since it seems to be of the paint model.
That could be that reflecting yellow is never the same as spectral yellow and reflecting yellow is only due to red/green 50/50 ratios.
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An easy way to find is to use color filters. Buy a green filter, a red filter, and a yellow filter. Some places sell sets for telescopes, nothing
really fancy or prohibitively expensive. No filter is perfect but they should be good enough.
Are you taking into account that:
- the effect you see may be due (of course it is) to the individual pixels that make up the screen? A better option would be to print
the checkerboard on a sheet, pin the sheet to a wall and observe it from various distances (from 30 cm to 5 m or more);
- the specific shades of colors that you see are not necessarily the same seen by someone else because of the way the cones are structured and
wired to the brain? My blues may be slightly bluer than yours, for example;
- the color wheel is arbitrary and has more to do with physiology than with physics?
Edit: Typo.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Twospoons | | Quote: Originally posted by Neal |
That could be that reflecting yellow is never the same as spectral yellow and reflecting yellow is only due to red/green 50/50 ratios.
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The only way to now for sure is to use a spectrometer, diffraction grating or prism to analyse the light. |
I don't have experience with this, how does it work? If I have a yellow object, having an instrument measure the wavelengths, most likely would get
wavelengths from something other than the yellow object.
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That last statement makes no sense. Can you rephrase it?
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