Re: PICT of visible spectrum

From: Chris Worth (caw@bcc.louisville.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 13:57:30 EST


A physics textbook should have a picture of that.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 06:51:25 -0800, David Chambers wrote:

>
>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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