I've worked in print my whole life. Not a true "color scientist" but I have all the same certifications.
This post was a fun read and you certainly get a passing grade :D
You did get to ignore one whole dimension which is the most annoying of all - substrate. The substrate you are printing on dramatically changes the color. The difference between the Pantone book paper and the lego plastic should show this off to some extent. (Coated paper would simulate plastic somewhat reasonably).
Thanks! It's good to have someone who knows what they're doing tell me I got close enough. I did notice that the colorimeter specs out of NIST mentioned things like measuring colors at 0deg and 45deg... and pantone has different book lines for coated/uncoated... but yeah, I figured that'd just go off into an even bigger confusing tangent of materials science🙃
Depending on where I look it up, it seems to be that the "visible range" of light is somewhere between 350nm and 750nm ish... some seem to be cited higher or lower, but they always start with a 3 or 7. Close enough for me!
I've worked in print my whole life. Not a true "color scientist" but I have all the same certifications.
This post was a fun read and you certainly get a passing grade :D
You did get to ignore one whole dimension which is the most annoying of all - substrate. The substrate you are printing on dramatically changes the color. The difference between the Pantone book paper and the lego plastic should show this off to some extent. (Coated paper would simulate plastic somewhat reasonably).
Great job :D
Thanks! It's good to have someone who knows what they're doing tell me I got close enough. I did notice that the colorimeter specs out of NIST mentioned things like measuring colors at 0deg and 45deg... and pantone has different book lines for coated/uncoated... but yeah, I figured that'd just go off into an even bigger confusing tangent of materials science🙃
Glad you liked the Matplotlib video!
One note: did you mean 680 nm to 750 nm, not 380 to 750?
Depending on where I look it up, it seems to be that the "visible range" of light is somewhere between 350nm and 750nm ish... some seem to be cited higher or lower, but they always start with a 3 or 7. Close enough for me!
Ahh, I thought you were giving numbers for the "top of the visible range", not the entire visible range. Alles ist klar.