>>That's also why >>foglights tend to be tinted yellow (even regular headlights in France, >>iirr, are mandatorily yellow; someone correct me if that changed) >>because that improves contrast in fog, etc.
>Changed quite a few years ago. IMHO the yellow tint took out too much >light intensity. Don't know why they changed it though, probably a EU >regulation under pressure from the car industry ;) If done *right* (and there's the rub), it should only strip out the deep blue end of the spectrum rather sharply, *not* affecting green or even teal/aqua colors. They would look pale yellow, not deep yellow and certainly not amber. (And yeah, I've seen amber foglights where I say to myself, "Why bother?".) 'Though I imagine with cheap colorants they might kill off everything from green on out. :\ But yeah, the bureaucratic thing seems most likely. As an aside, there used to be a fairly popular brand of subglasses advertised on teevee called "BlueBlockers(tm)", that someone gifted me a pair. I was skeptical, wore them just to not offend, but was eventually turned on to them as in fact working. The only thing I didn't like was white cars (eg, copcars) looking yellow. But they *did* improve sharpness and clarity when viewing at a distance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
