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rusty-ux
2y ago
That’s really tough. For me I use a display that has an ambient light sensor so it matches my surroundings, that might help a bit. Ideally your environment is balancing the light level of your monitor (maybe 50% black level) so you can have
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rusty-ux
2y ago
Doing it with hanging lamps is a clever solution. Doing it indirectly is the goal. There's one company out of the UK making super high end LED diffusers that can be precisely controlled - both the amount of light and the direction. Can
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rusty-ux
2y ago
Philips Ultra-Definition 60w equivalent bulbs are amazing and really reasonably priced. They also work really well with standard dimmers with extremely low flicker.
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rusty-ux
2y ago
Best thing you can do for LED strips is to connect it to a flicker free dimmer control, such as this one made by waveform lighting. Requires a little DIY but it will mean 0 flicker. https://store.waveformlighting.com/product
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rusty-ux
2y ago
This article is just what worked for me. Some people are more light color sensitive, if you like your cool lighting and a lot of light and it works - go for it.
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rusty-ux
2y ago
Do what works for you. If it’s comfortable and you don’t notice lingering issues it’s probably fine.
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rusty-ux
2y ago
Cool idea. Would love to see prototypes of this. This is essentially what happens at an optometrists office when you go for an eye test.
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2y ago
Amen. Honestly the IKEA lamps are the best - super cheap and you can swap out the bulbs with high quality dimmable philips. What torchiers are you swapping to?
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2y ago
It’s adobe substance stager 3d
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rusty-ux
2y ago
You are spot on! - was a limitation of my 3d rendering abilities but great point.