P3D Re: anaglyphs / monitor color

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Boris Starosta <boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


>Most monitors come out of the factory box balanced to a ridiculously
high
>color temperature.  I mean, they must be manufactured on a planet
orbiting
>a neutron star, these things are so BLUE.  Gotta be 10,000k or 20,000k
or
>more

Most of the current generation of monitors (those with electronic
on-screen adjustments) have a color balance control.  For example, the
year-and-a-half-old Dell 1000HS screen I'm using has three
color-temperature presets: 9300K, 6500K and 5000K.  As Boris notes, it
came from the factory set on the 9300K setting.  Along with the preset,
the saturation of R, G and B is also displayed, and can be adjusted.
For this monitor, on a scale of 0-100, these numbers are:

5000K: R=100  G=70  B=30
6500K: R=86    G=67  B=45
9300K: R=73    G=65  B=60

As you can see, there's almost 30% more red and 30% less blue in the
warm-appearing 5000K setting.

Since the selected preset can be changed "on the fly" with a button, it
will be worth experimenting with an anaglyph displayed to see which
setting gives the best extinction (and like Boris, I'm guessing that it
will the 5000K setting).  The setting can easily be reverted to the
original  if desired.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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