Petapixel:
An Italian company called CoeLux has developed a new light source that recreates the look of sunlight through a skylight so well that it can trick both human brains and cameras.
The scientists who invented the light figured out how to use a thin coating of nanoparticles to accurately simulate sunlight through Earth’s atmosphere and the effect known as Rayleigh scattering. It’s not just the color temperature thats the same — the quality of the light feels the same as well.
This is just mindbogglingly cool. I have lived in basement apartments most of my life so I know the practical application of this in living spaces could be profound. I especially like the concept of “earthscrapers”.
We live in a corner unit on the third floor, so you might think we get enough light.
But no, I’d definitely install a bunch of these if I could afford them. 🙂
Yeah – insanely expensive now but like most new tech, the price will come down rapidly once it goes into production.
Yeah. I think it could be many, many years before they’re affordable by people like you and I. But eventually, they’ll be produced in China for a few hundred. 🙂
That’s both good and bad, of course.
I can finally see the light!
I wonder if the “sun” moves across the “sky”.
Yep, we’re gonna need these when we all have to burrow underground to escape the flooding and high winds.