Re: PICT of visible spectrum

From: David Chambers (davidc@ccmi.salk.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 09:51:25 EST


Hi Jan,

This might help you - the program is in FORTAN but looks easy enough,
also the author has a graph with the approx. RGB values by wavelength.

	http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/color/spectra.html

Good luck,
	- David


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:00:07 -0500, Jan_F_Keij@sbphrd.com wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> For a tutorial on fluorescent MAb tags, I'm looking for a way to visualize the
> colors of the different fluorochromes in a PowerPoint presentation.
>
> One way would be to overlay the emission spectrum from a fluorimeter with the a
> picture of the visible spectrum (after matching the wavelength scale).  I've
> hunted the web for a PICT file of the visible spectrum, but have only found very
> small .jpeg files on astronomy pages.  Useless.
>
> Another way would be to display the color of the emission peak wavelength.  So
> here I looking for a way to match say the RBG settings to the wavelength of the
> color.  Is there a color mixing algorithm in fairly generic software that does
> this?
>
> I can't be the first one to think of this...
>
>
> All suggestions welcome,
>
> Jan.



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