Light Box: The Mixing of Light

For this light box assignment we had to form groups of four or less. My group members were Cory Odell, Kelsey Walker, and Matt Weikert. We designed a lighting experience for our 12'x12'x12' space by using different colored lights and manipulating the areas they could flood into to create different colors of light. The model was a 1'=1" scale model of a triangular space with three tabs placed to focus all of the lights into a white triangle on the base that reflected the triangular viewport in the top of the box. The tabs also allowed for each pair of colors to cross each other and create a new color. The final products has two corners of green, blue, and red but then in between those corners are yellow, magenta, and cyan. Then where all of the colors meet in the middle forms a white triangle. 

The mixing of light

The lighting effect

Interior of the light box

The poster

Scavenger Hunt: Illuminance, Reflectance, and Transmittance

Illuminance (in fc)

0-10 fc - (8.8 fc) 4th year studio space kitchenette 

10-20 fc - (11.7 fc) 4th floor studio space

20-30 fc - (20.6 fc) 3rd year studio pin-up wall

30-40 fc - (36.2 fc) computer lab table

40-50 fc - (48.4 fc) room 204 pin-up wall

50-60 fc - (53.2 fc) 4th floor critique room

60-100 fc - (76.1 fc) 3rd year studio windows

>100 fc - (163.8 fc) desk lamp on desk surface

Reflectance

0-20% - 1.4/31.4 = 4% monitor cover in room 204

20-40% - 9/30.2 = 30% desk surfaces in room 204

40-60% - 11.4/19.7 = 58% metal window frame in room 204

60-80% - 11.8/18.2 = 65% white board in room 204

80-100% - 19/20.2 = 94% bathroom mirror 

Transmittance

0-20% - 0.3/242 = 0% shades in room 204

20-40% - 12.7/44.5 = 28.5% sketchbook paper under lamp

40-60% - 13.2/31.2 = 42% monitor cover in room 204

60-80% - 540/710 = 76% light box surface

80-100% - 23/24.9 = 92% window in door to room 204