Fruit in SoLux Daylight | Fruit in Incandescent Light |
What makes the apple look green, banana yellow, and orange
orange?
Pigments contained in the apple's outer skin have the ability to
selectively reflect and absorb light of different color. A green
apple reflects green light and absorbs all the other colors in
the rainbow (blue,yellow,orange, and red). The green light
reflected off the apple enters your eye and therefore you see the
apple as green. (See also red apple example)
In the case of a banana, the light reflected is yellow light and
the other colors are absorbed. This simple example explains how
we see all opaque colors.
In order to see the colors accurately, the light source needs to
contain all the colors of the rainbow, and in equal amounts. The
only naturally occurring source to provide this type of
illumination is daylight the only man made
source to accurately reproduce daylight is SoLux.
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