Color-Shifting Cuttlefish Inspire TV Screens

Clever idea. But you'll still need at least three layers, and some way of defining and addressing individual pixels.

Or you're going to have to shove a shitload of electrodes into some poor cuttlefish.

I'm not sure I'd want a cuttlefish near my face while making a cell call.

i'm waiting for someone to make paint containing cuttlefish pigment - you could have a colour changing car.

If you frightened it, you might end up with a face full of ink.

On 5/14/2009 3:05 PM Bob Larter spake thus:

I can see the ad campaign now: "The newest thing in 4G--the CuttleCall. It's cuttle-edge. It's exciting! It's *dangerous*! Use with caution."

How does one get magenta (red + blue) to show? Since the cuttlefish panel material can match any single wavelength (colors from the rainbow), but other colors are out of the question.

Alan

LOL. Yeah, that's probably exactly how they'd market it.

One great advantage would be that it could stick itself to your face instead of you having to hold it to your ear.

Pixels, same as on an LCD.

On 5/14/2009 11:53 PM Bob Larter spake thus:

Except you're talking about a dithered color scheme; don't LCDs (and practically anything else w/pixels) allow pixels of any arbitrary color, not just intensities of R, G or B?

No, the pixels are combinations of R G B as there are three fixed color filters.

If you are going to do pixels combining the primary colors, you might as you do fixed color filters and you don't need the cuttlefish inspired color changing filter.

Alan

Yes, that's what I meant.

Hell no! It's RGB all the way.

It's the varying R/G/B intensities that create the "arbitrary" colors.

Note that you can't create colors with greater saturation than the saturation of the primaries.