Preferred Dash Illumination
Poll: Preferred Dash Illumination
Total Members Polled: 78
Discussion
Rawwr said:
Dials, mostly. By far the worst was the blue LED illumination on white dials in my Elise. Unreadable and distracting.
I agree, some do seem to glare and almost dazzle or become hazy.Personally think it's tough be beat black dials with white text and front lit white light. Although maybe not the most attractive or WOW affect.
I've also heard that the human eye is most sensitive to green light, so maybe that's why a lot of cars in the past have used green light?
Green, soothing and clam. But not as good for night vision as red. On Ships we use red back light for radars and such to keep acclimatised to the dark, but on the road with street lights and oncoming traffic not as critical.
On the subject I prefer older cars with normal halogen lights, all ths xenon malrkey just makes you look in the bright white pool of light, older lights mean you see outside the pool and notice some stuff that may be important. I see Mercedes Benz (creators on the Nuclear bomb bright lights) have TV's and infra red to achieve the same thing.
On the subject I prefer older cars with normal halogen lights, all ths xenon malrkey just makes you look in the bright white pool of light, older lights mean you see outside the pool and notice some stuff that may be important. I see Mercedes Benz (creators on the Nuclear bomb bright lights) have TV's and infra red to achieve the same thing.
300bhp/ton said:
I've also heard that the human eye is most sensitive to green light, so maybe that's why a lot of cars in the past have used green light?
It varies by person. As I understand it, the interface between the eye and the brain basically consists of three level values for the three primary colours. However, the eye actually decodes a bell curve distribution of frequencies for each colour signal, with the height of the bell curve at the point of the frequency of incoming light being a multiplier between the actual level of that light and the strength of the signal sent to the brain. It usually looks something like this:
As you can see the red and green curves sit very close to each other, with the blue some distance away (being red-green colour blind is when they sit almost exactly on top of each other). However the heights of the curves are near enough the same, for most people.
Interestingly, this means that the brain could be wired up with any permutation of those colours and we'd never know; it's quite possible that what one person calls blue actually looks to them exactly like what someone else calls green. There's no way to tell. That might go some way to explaining why different people like different colours?
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 12th January 08:58
I like the way VW dashboards look when they are lit up, but I find the best colour for me at night is green. This is particularly noticeable when jumping straight from a Polo to Volvo.
It doesn't look as good but I find it the easiest to read, especially with the brightness turned down a touch.
It doesn't look as good but I find it the easiest to read, especially with the brightness turned down a touch.
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