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Article #949Re: Perceiving "Neon/Florescent" Colors
From: Wm. Race Dowling
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:13
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:13
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In article <1h5ehoINN707@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> pstryjew@colsun.Central.Sun.COM writes: -> ->How does the human eye perceive "Neon/Florescent" color (i.e. hot pink, blaze ->orange, the Crayola Florescent Crayons)? -> ->I assume it has something to do with absorption of UV light, but where in the ->spectrum do they reside? Are they hiding in the "visible" spectrum? How are ->the dyes made, I can't make them with additive mixing of the three primaries. -> I believe they are made by mixing normal dyes with a fluorescing substance such as phosphorous. Thus it appears that it reflects more light than is incident on it (actually, it's just convering invisible radiation to light). -- Race Dowling
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!wrd From: wrd@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Wm. Race Dowling) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science Subject: Re: Perceiving "Neon/Florescent" Colors Message-ID: <28843@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 22 Dec 92 04:13:54 GMT References: <1h5ehoINN707@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Lines: 15 X-Organization: (formerly David Taylor Research Center)