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15 Jun 2024 04:29:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ChromaDepth  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 9 Feb 2018 19:20:26
Message: <5a7e3aca$1@news.povray.org>
On 1/19/2016 12:53 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 19.01.2016 um 11:41 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> 
>>>> Strictly speaking you can expect depth cues to progress in steps:
>>>> There's one fixed distance corresponding to Red, one corresponding to
>>>> Green, and one corresponding to Blue. All of which will depend on your
>>>> display's primary colours.
>>>>
>>>> Any colour in between just corresponds to a superposition of two
>>>> different depths.
>>>>
>>>> This is especially true if you have a wide-gamut display, i.e. each
>>>> primary covers only a narrow band of wavelengths.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you sure? Yellow definitely looks closer than blue, and blends
>>> smoothly into the neighboring colors.
>>>
>>> I *have* noticed a superposition when looking at magenta. It looks both
>>> closer and farther than other colors next to it. It's a hard sensation
>>> to describe.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> Forgot to say that this lead me to believe that spectral colors are the
>> only ones that work properly. Magenta is not a spectral color.
> 
> Which is exactly what I'm saying: In computer displays, anything except
> pure Red, pure Green or pure Blue is /never/ a spectral colour -- it's
> always a superposition of those three basic colours.
> 
> In classic displays, even those are not pure spectral colours -- which
> "blurs" them in depth and thus makes the superposition-nature of
> in-between colours less obvious.
> 
> Wide-gamut displays, on the other hand, require comparatively "pure"
> primary colours to achieve their wide gamut, which "sharpens" them in
> depth, and thus will easily reveal the superposition-nature of
> in-between colours.
> 



I was reading their website the other day, and found their technical page:

http://chromatek.com/what-is-chromadepth/chromadepth-technical-explanation/

According to them, the glasses work on computer displays and printed 
materials too.

Quote: "On a black background, red will appear closest, blue furthest, 
and the other colors will fall in-between according to their place in 
the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue)."

So, any color should work okay, not just the primaries.


Mike


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