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Lighting: Basic Concepts

1. What is Light

2. Human Eye

3. Vision

4. Colour

[Powerpoint file in PDF format]

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 Video Presentation:

• Lighting Systems:
• The Electromagnetic Spectrum (2:43) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cNELHQBMSM
• Basic principles of light reflection and light absorption (4:44) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuAHjhDO6I
• Refraction (1:28) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap6yrxCtZKo
• The basics of Lighting optics (6:17) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e1hVkyaUe0
• Human Eyes and Vision:
• A Journey Through the Human Eye: How We See (2:39), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvozcv8pS3c
• How Vision Works (1:37) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBdyU1b0ADQ
• Visual process of the eye (3:59) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx1bgW3eFEk
• Lighting vision (4:02) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880FaL_9QJY
• Colour:
• Light and Color (2:36) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMQRK4V49s
• Color Rendering (3:03) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO_WZvuf_BY
  
• Color Temperature (2:52) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDZ8CMWq1k
• Basics principles of additive color mixing (3:02) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ifzy-FSC8

 Further Reading:

• Basics of Light and Lighting (Philips Lighting) [PDF]
• Introduction to Lighting Theory, http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/connect/Lighting_University/internet-courses/Lighting-Theory/Lighting-Theory/
• Lighting Theory (from Thorn training materials) [PDF]
• The Lighting Handbook (Zumtobel) [PDF]
  
• Vision Concepts, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/visioncon.html
• Color Vision, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/colviscon.html

References:

• Benya, J., et al, 2003. Advanced Lighting Guidelines, 2003 ed., New Buildings Institute, White Salmon, Washington. [621.32 A24 B][AV 621.32 A24 B4  CDROM]
• Raynham, P., 2012. The SLL Code for Lighting, Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), London. [621.320218 R27]
• SLL, 2009. Code for Lighting 2009 [CD-ROM], Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers, London. [AV 621.320218 C66]
• SLL, 2009. The SLL Lighting Handbook, Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [621.32 S67]

Web Links:

• Architectural lighting design -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_lighting_design
• Glare (vision) -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glare_(vision)
• Light Guides [Lightsearch.com] http://www.lightsearch.com/resources/lightguides/index.html
• Luminous efficacy -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy
• Spectral Power Distribution Curves, http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/spectral_power_distribution_curves/
• Light and Vision (HyperPhysics), http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ligcon.html
• Human eye -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye
  
• Photoreceptor cell -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell
  
• Purkinje shift (dark adaptation) -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect
  
• Color temperature -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
  
• Color rendering index -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
  
• Color -- Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color
• Colour Blindness:
• Color Blindness Test http://www.maniacworld.com/color_blind_test.htm
• EnChroma Color Blindness Test http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/
• Ishihara 38 Plates CVD Test http://www.color-blindness.com/ishihara-38-plates-cvd-test/
• The Ishihara Color Test for Color Blindness http://www.colour-blindness.com/colour-blindness-tests/ishihara-colour-test-plates/
• Demo of colour contrast and colour adaptation http://www.psypress.co.uk/mather/resources/topic.asp?topic=ch12-tp-04

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| Created: Jul 2016 | Update: 7 Sep 2017 |