Re: "Full-spectrum" article on Wikipedia

On 02 Jun 2007, Ioannis <morpheus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The "full-spectrum" article in Wikipedia is a mess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum

I normally wouldn't bother with it, but a link to one of my pages
appears there for some strange reason, and in general I feel that
the article relies too much on external links in order to explain
the story.

I think it is somewhat of a responsibility of ours to re-structure
this article. It is a shame for such a popular notion to not have a
respectable, reliable and scientific viewpoint from the guys here.

May I therefore suggest that we work on a draft here in s.e.l.,
which can later be posted into the Wiki page?

I don't want to do it myself because I am not a lighting engineer,
but if nobody else offers to start a draft, I will be glad to
summarize a preliminary version, which can be edited by others.

What say ye?


As a non-lighting engineer, may I ask a simple question in this
thread.

If a lamp is rated at a certain colour temperature then how is its
colour temperature determined from its spectrograph?

A spectrograph of a lamp's emissions seems to show there is a large
and complex number of peaks & troughs sometimes they are in bands
across its spectrum. This seems a tricky starting point.

What analysis is used to create a single colout temperature value
from the spectrum?

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PS:

If only the spectra I have glanced at looked as simple as these!
http://tinyurl.com/2crj7v and http://tinyurl.com/2yps82

I tend to think of something like this as a better representation:
http://tinyurl.com/2z4lh4

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