Business offices, banks, mailrooms.
Professions that depend upon accurate reading, quality lighting is essential.
Dry Cleaners / Laundry.
Examined under conventional lighitng, subtle stains are easily hidden and overlooked.
Carried outdoors, these stains suddenly appear to the customer..
Libraries, Classrooms, Broadcast studios.
Reading requires visual acuity without eye strain.
Computer work.
The Skylighter maintains visual acuity when levels are reduced (as opposed to cool white). Less overall brightness means less glare on computer screens.
Graphic arts.
Color matching is essential to assure colors appear the same in the studio, conference room, layout, and the print shop.
Artists.
An artist's work depends upon color. An artist needs to see materials (paints) in true color.
Distinguishing fine detail is also important.
Television edit suites, Control rooms, TV Junkies.
Lit only by TV monitors, these rooms are usually kept dark to prevent glare. Rapid fluctuations in picture brightness has the eye constantly adjusting pupil size to compensate. The over-worked eye fatiques quickly.
By introducing a small, but constant light source, the eye will have a fixed reference level.
Many facilities use low level track lights to create an environment. Yet tungsten cannot produce the cyan (scotopic) light needed to maximize pupil contraction. For track lights to contract pupils, they need to be quite bright, to a level where monitor glare becomes the problem.
The dim environment can be maintained by simply introducing a small amount of scotopic rich light.
We suggest lighting the wall behind the monitors with low-levels of cyan-rich fluorescent light. This will provide an optimized reference for the eyes, while preserving the "dark" atmosphere of the room. |