What if we all see different colours but have always known our personal version by the same common name.
How do I know my Red isn't your Green, but maybe you see Red grass and call it Green.
Crazy Colours eh. I blame Rainbows, shifty things.
A square wave light would appear like a pulsed light, a sine wave light would appear smoother without the pulsing and appear more constant.
I suppose the comparison would be an incandescent bulb which is a sine wave and a certain heat producing light smoothly by resistance in the wire and a flourescent light which flickers on an off very quickly to charge the gas which dissipates the heat into it...or flicker intermitently to drive you mad and make you ill.
How do I know my Red isn't your Green, but maybe you see Red grass and call it Green.
Crazy Colours eh. I blame Rainbows, shifty things.
(06-28-2024, 05:40 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: I have often wondered if light were affected like sound by the wave form. Can you see the difference between a sine wave and a square wave light? How about a saw tooth wave?
I am going to have to look into how such waves could be generated.
A square wave light would appear like a pulsed light, a sine wave light would appear smoother without the pulsing and appear more constant.
I suppose the comparison would be an incandescent bulb which is a sine wave and a certain heat producing light smoothly by resistance in the wire and a flourescent light which flickers on an off very quickly to charge the gas which dissipates the heat into it...or flicker intermitently to drive you mad and make you ill.
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