Gauge Lighting

[GunMetalGrey]

Don't forget the matching "underglow"

Really?


Now anyone who thinks that is ricey, should have their head checked! Classy is more like it

[george graves]

what are those blue things?

reading is fundamental.

[EN318isPDX]

I am going for the look that the interior of our 2010 hyundai sante fe has, and if you call that a ricer, I don't even know what I would say. With the lights dimmed it is actually more of a purple, which is nice at night, but the blue is nice for daytime.

Don't forget the matching "underglow"

[GunMetalGrey]

I am going for the look that the interior of our 2010 hyundai sante fe has, and if you call that a ricer, I don't even know what I would say. With the lights dimmed it is actually more of a purple, which is nice at night, but the blue is nice for daytime.

[EN318isPDX]

they aren't LED's... and they are much easier for me to drive with... Especially, when take 8 15 hours trips each year.

So you say, i found it quiet easy to drive without dash lights......................

[Aptyp]

they aren't LED's... and they are much easier for me to drive with... Especially, when take 8 15 hours trips each year.

[EN318isPDX]

Look out there window, and look out yours, a bit different, also notice those are old ass screens and are not ricer blue LED"s

[Aptyp]

what are those blue things?

[NC325iC]

^IIRC - the human eye is most sensitive to red-ish light, the color of the sun. As I understand the engineer's thinking is that since the eye is most sensitive to that color, you need less brightness of that color to be able to see something (such as the dash) and as a result, your pupils will be larger, letting in more of the light from the road into your eye and you'll see the road better....blah, blah, blah...I know the space shuttle uses it, and I want ot say fighter jets do to(?) Anyways...

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looks like Darth Vader's bathroom. ;)

Thats what i thought too, thats why i googled it, all i could find was green.

UNTIL NOWWW!!!!

http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/6d.html

if you go down a bit theres a portion that reads

The cone cells of the human eye are sensitive to 3 wavelength ranges which the eye interprets as blue (narrow, with a peak near 419 nm), green (broader, with a peak near 531 nm) and red (also broad, with a peak near 558 nm, which is actually more like yellow!):

then shows a graph with the colors and their intensity.

[george graves]

^IIRC - the human eye is most sensitive to red-ish light, the color of the sun. As I understand the engineer's thinking is that since the eye is most sensitive to that color, you need less brightness of that color to be able to see something (such as the dash) and as a result, your pupils will be larger, letting in more of the light from the road into your eye and you'll see the road better....blah, blah, blah...I know the space shuttle uses it, and I want ot say fighter jets do to(?) Anyways...

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looks like Darth Vader's bathroom. ;)

[NC325iC]

yeah i did some quick "ill show you" research and it came up that green was the most easily seen color for the human eye, so i guess its good that im kinda hungry cause my words are looking pretty appetizing. though i still prefer a nice orangy glow rather than green. and would never do blue.

[EN318isPDX]

whatever, I hated amber... I spent a lot of time driving cross country and I had to make the switch. Got a set that lights up in amber, green and blue. Always switch to green when driving into the night, my don't hurt at all.


And amber has nothing to do with BMW engineers choosing it as the best color.

I am blind just looking at this picture!

[nando]

whatever, I hated amber... I spent a lot of time driving cross country and I had to make the switch. Got a set that lights up in amber, green and blue. Always switch to green when driving into the night, my don't hurt at all.


And amber has nothing to do with BMW engineers choosing it as the best color.

green and amber are both acceptable. Guess what color lights on in an airplane are? they certainly aren't blue..

[EndreM]

Amber is a comfortable color to look at. My headunit is in bright blue, and when I'm out driving in the dark for a longer period of time, it makes me annoyed.

Of course some of it has to do with the brightness, but still.

I would like to upgrade to the newest type of gauges, tho. They look cool

[Aptyp]

whatever, I hated amber... I spent a lot of time driving cross country and I had to make the switch. Got a set that lights up in amber, green and blue. Always switch to green when driving into the night, my don't hurt at all.


And amber has nothing to do with BMW engineers choosing it as the best color.