![]() However, at that temperature the intensity of light is so great (and with so much UV and shorter wavelength light) that I would highly recommend not trying to look at the source. However, when things get very, very hot they might appear blue. This shows that the general shape of the emission curve is always the same - the only thing that changes is the position of the peak (which follows a 1/T law known as Wien's Displacement Law), and the area under the curve, which increases with the fourth power of the temperature (Stefan-Boltzmann law).Īs I mentioned, in a "real" material there may be some "bumps" in the spectrum due to changes in emissivity with wavelength - but to the best of my knowledge this is not enough to stop the appearance of red-yellow-white as things get hotter. I will just reproduce one of the curves from there: I gave a number of examples of this in this earlier answer. There may be some (small) deviations from the general law due to surface emissivity, but not so much that you would notice.īlack body radiation is not a single wavelength, it is a broad spectrum given by Planck's law. It's a funny name, because even "non black" bodies emit this thermal radiation. When metals (or any materials) get very hot, they emit "black body radiation". Which is probably not very surprising given that the Sun The sun above the horizon, but it is never too far from a black body The spectrum of daylight varies with the weather and with the height of ![]() Source, and thus our natural white reference. The choice of daylightĪs a reference light source is obvious given that our species hasĮvolved in a world where daylight has always been the standard light These are meant to model natural daylight. “ standard illuminants” which are deemed white. ![]() In practice, in the realm of color science, there are some so called Typical illuminant could be considered, in some sense, to be “white (meaning: light source) was shined to it. This leaves the notion of while light ill defined: the light comingįrom a white surface has the same spectrum as whatever illuminant
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