We've all undoubtedly noticed these things scattered around the campus. They cast out a bright blue light that is pretty unique among the types of sources we're used to seeing around campus (which I imagine is the point). It's interesting to me because we usually don't see much saturate light from artificial sources outside of a theater like this. Mostly we we get around campus is warm amber and the occasional industrial light blue or greenish.
I also found it interesting how the intensity of this blue changed the colors of the materials around it. The two lines of yellow brick became an orange-brown color and the white-ish-gray bricks adopted the blue light as their own.
I also found it interesting to look at the color of the near by floodlights and how they compared to the blue of this one. The two nearby sources each cast a familiar warm light that we expect from artificial sources. However, other nearby sources were casting a very greenish light.
It's kind of an off-putting source of light just because it's not what we're used to seeing around campus! Blue is normally a beautiful and soothing color, I wonder if that is also part of the reasoning behind the color choice of those guys? Interesting!
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