MEBS6004 Built Environment

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Visual environment: basic concepts and principles

1. What is light?

2. How the human eye works?

3. What lighting can do?

4. Lighting quality

5. Design considerations

(Powerpoint file in PDF format)

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Video Presentation:

• A Journey Through the Human Eye: How We See (2:39) https://youtu.be/gvozcv8pS3c
  
• How Vision Works (1:37) https://youtu.be/gBdyU1b0ADQ
  
• Human Vision (7:38) https://youtu.be/6jwTLeK1iDE

Further Reading:

• IES Lighting Ready Reference App https://www.ies.org/education/ies-lighting-ready-reference-app/
  
• Lighting theory essentials (Philips Lighting/Signify) https://www.signify.com/global/lighting-academy/browser/course/lighting-theory-essentials
  
• Principles of Vision https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11513/
• The Nobel prizes related to lighting:
• The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics - the invention of efficient blue LEDs which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources, by Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/press-release/
  
• The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm, by Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2017/press-release/

References:

• Awasthi O. N., 2014. Fundamentals of Lighting, Alpha Science International Ltd., Oxford, U.K. [HKALL]
• Benya J., et al, 2003. Advanced Lighting Guidelines, 2003 ed., New Buildings Institute, White Salmon, Washington. [HKALL][https://www.lightingassociates.org/i/u/2127806/f/tech_sheets/Advanced_Lighting_Guidelines_2003.pdf]
• IESNA, 2011. The Lighting Handbook: Reference & Application, 10th ed., Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, New York, N.Y. [HKALL]
• Winchip S. M., 2017. Fundamentals of Lighting, Fairchild Publications, New York. [HKALL]
• The Lighting Handbook (Zumtobel) http://www.zumtobel.com/PDB/teaser/EN/lichthandbuch.pdf
  

Web Links:

• Human eye - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye
  
• HyperPhysics - Light and Vision:
  
• Human eye http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/eye.html
  
• Accommodation http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/accom.html
  
• Introduction to lighting design https://www.lightnowblog.com/2016/03/introduction-to-lighting-design/
  
• How to Design for Visual Comfort Using Natural Light https://www.archdaily.com/911210/let-there-be-light-key-indicators-to-describe-and-design-visual-comfort
  
• Ishihara Colorblindness Test:
  
• https://www.colorlitelens.com/ishihara-test
  
• https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/microscope-resource/primer/java/humanvision/colorblindness/
  
• What is UGR? https://www.nvcuk.com/technical/what-is-ugr/529.htm
  
• Color temperature - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
  
• Color rendering index - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
  

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| Created: Jul 2022 | Update: 14 Oct 2022 |