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I wonder why people want 'warm white light' so much. It's not natural. Sunlight is in fact much whiter and not so yellowish as what incandescent bulb emits.
by jan_g 15y ago
I wonder why people want 'warm white light' so much. It's not natural. Sunlight is in fact much whiter and not so yellowish as what incandescent bulb emits.
- sp332 15y agoMaybe true, but most of the things you'd look at outdoors are greenish or brownish. Maybe the colors of the things people look at indoors are whiter or bluer?
- _delirium 15y agoIt seems pretty natural to me; lower-color-temp lighting has been the standard for nighttime use for a least tens of thousands of years, possibly hundreds of thousands, depending on when exactly fire came into widespread use.
- lutorm 15y agoI agree with you. Moreover, the eye has a fantastic ability to filter out differences in illumination. If you could design an experiment where someone who had been illuminated by different color temperature lights could be asked what color temperature the light was without remembering what it was from when they were first exposed to it, I bet that people would have difficulty doing so.