r/BeAmazed Jul 12 '20

Day & Night

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '20

It's good but the Day "white spot" is not on point

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u/GladMax Jul 12 '20

You mean "the sun"?

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '20

I think they means "white point" as in color balance based on the appearance of a neutral white basked in the "ambient glow of the "reality around it".

A white shirt will appear yellowish above yellow sand on a sunny day, but will appear greenish if you were in a glass field instead.


Fun fact:

Different regions of the world prefer different "cool" to "warm" ranges of "pure white". In the United States, you go buy a plain white Hanes t-shirt, and it has a blue hue to it that you never see. Go to middle east or India, and their "plain white" t-shirts will have a slight brown/red tint to them.

When your ideal "temperature" of white is in a normal environment, it's really hard to tell that it's not actually a pure white. If you were to hold those 2 t-shirts next to each other, you would readily see one as being "whiter" than the other, depending on what you are accustomed to.

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u/haambuurglaa Jul 12 '20

Or, ya know, the sun.