Condura Vision Target Fabric Colors

[FirstParent]

Originally Posted by FirstParent

Just as an update on the Vision Target colors, as of today:

Seattlefabrics.com is out of stock in their hot pink cordura and they won't have it in stock again until next week sometime.

Ahh.biz doesn't carry hot pink or fluorescent green at all.

I called several other fabric businesses listed online for Diener Cordura in #1201 Hot Pink and #1089 Fluorescent Green, but nobody carried anything close to those colors, except this store:

http://www.rockywoods.com/Fabrics-Ha...Premium-Colors

I ordered their neon green and neon pink 1000 diener cordura to be overnighted to me. Their material bolts do not show color numbers, so we are going by what I see on my computer screen and by their color description only. They told me, in real life the colors are much brighter than what is shown on my screen, so hopefully, we will have a match. I will report back tomorrow night whether I had success with these colors.

I just received the overnighted denier cordura material from rockywoods.com. It definitely looks like the correct colors. I won't have access to the KOP material until later this afternoon to double check, but I will report as soon as I can make the comparison.

By the way, rockywoods.com updated their denier cordura web page with more representative color swatches of their fluorescent green and hot pink colors. The colors on their web page look like the material I have in my hands. I think this material and these colors will work fine, but I will let the group know later today.

[Greg McKaskle]

To comment on the lighting changes. Sunlight is one of the types of light that will shift the reflected green colors more than almost anything else. Also, while light bulbs are produced to certain standards, sunlight has no such standards and can vary widely depending on mother nature's mood.

The effect of the sunlight that causes problems isn't the brightness of the sun, but the color. Commonly being yellow, it will shift the green up and the pink down.

As Alan mentioned, we attempted to make the HSL threshold wide enough to work in most environments, but understanding it and learning to predict and control the camera is of course a really good thing. To assist with this, a new white paper is up.

http://phoenix.ni.com/support/softli...hitepaper.docx