Why Do Different Lights Make You Look Different?

kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
Yea why do they?

Like a bathroom light makes you look normal, but when you go in a bright white room, everything on your body and face looks distorted, especially at nighttime..

My mind must be playing tricks <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->

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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    My bathroom light is bright and white.
  • BlaqWolfBlaqWolf Join Date: 2002-10-28 Member: 1667Members
    i notice that too....

    intensity of the light i guess... bathroom lights tend to be much softer... but then school lights are much brighter and make you look ugly.

    i hate it when i fix myself in the morning before school thinking i look hot and then i look at the mirror at school and i'm like, "NOOO!!!! I'M ... I'M .... UUUUUGLY!!!!"

    well not that bad but ya know...
  • NeckNeck Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 82Members
    Maybe it's because YOU'RE A CHICKEN.
  • DubbilexDubbilex Chump Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9799Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Neck+Aug 12 2003, 10:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Neck @ Aug 12 2003, 10:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Maybe it's because YOU'RE A CHICKEN. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I uhhh......doubt it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • NeckNeck Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 82Members
  • KeitaroSempaiKeitaroSempai Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 17003Members
    Iunno...I guess it has to be the spectrum different lights emit.

    What I mean is that different lights emit a different range of colors. Sunlight, of course, shows the full color spectrum whereas incandescent and fluorescent lights do not. In other words, you're not seeing all the colors of your face in the bathroom while trying to make yourself beautiful ^_^.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    really? hmm I never thought of that...

    I thought light was the same, like the same thing, energy, but now I remember that there is a thing called the light spectrum and that different types of light have different wavelengths...

    But anways, on with the topic...
  • r4m3n_n00dlesr4m3n_n00dles Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
    edited August 2003
    Incandecent bulbs with the little metal filament emit a full band of visible light, due to the metal's electric properties.

    With fluorescent lights, the gas contained within the tube has very specific frequencies that it can produce from the electrons jumping down an orbital or few, with an atom that can be energized to 1 higher state there would be 1 possible frequency, 2 higher states could yield 3 frequencies, 3 gives 6. A good model would be how many ways you can walk (fall) down a set of steps. Depending on how far you go down, more energy is released and the wave has a higher frequency.

    The wavelengths of EM radaition produced within the fluorescent tubes that are not ordinarily visible (UV) are "recycled" by decreasing their energy. Upon hitting the phosphoric coating (which is why the tubes are only translucent and not transparent) they energize the phosphorus atoms which in-turn reradiate their radaition as a visible, useful wave. Without the coating (or a different one) you would get toasted.

    But I don't know why your face gets "distorted" in bright light. Is your mirror broken? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Your skin may look different depending on lighting conditions, like what BlaqWolf said. Color variations might become more pronounced due to the specificity of the wavelengths in floros, they also lack the "warmth" that is generated by the much more inefficent yet effective metal filament so you might look a bit uglier... It might have something to do with that, however I have never seen this effect so I don't really know what the conditions are.
  • GnatsumGnatsum Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10566Members
    Its all the the shadows... pfffffft.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    Me? Well i blame the parents.
  • BOZOBOZO Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3973Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin--r4m3n_n00dles+Aug 13 2003, 06:45 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (r4m3n_n00dles @ Aug 13 2003, 06:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Incandecent bulbs with the little metal filament emit a full band of visible light, due to the metal's electric properties.

    With fluorescent lights, the gas contained within the tube has very specific frequencies that it can produce from the electrons jumping down an orbital or few, with an atom that can be energized to 1 higher state there would be 1 possible frequency, 2 higher states could yield 3 frequencies, 3 gives 6. A good model would be how many ways you can walk (fall) down a set of steps. Depending on how far you go down, more energy is released and the wave has a higher frequency.

    The wavelengths of EM radaition produced within the fluorescent tubes that are not ordinarily visible (UV) are "recycled" by decreasing their energy. Upon hitting the phosphoric coating (which is why the tubes are only translucent and not transparent) they energize the phosphorus atoms which in-turn reradiate their radaition as a visible, useful wave. Without the coating (or a different one) you would get toasted.

    But I don't know why your face gets "distorted" in bright light. Is your mirror broken? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Your skin may look different depending on lighting conditions, like what BlaqWolf said. Color variations might become more pronounced due to the specificity of the wavelengths in floros, they also lack the "warmth" that is generated by the much more inefficent yet effective metal filament so you might look a bit uglier... It might have something to do with that, however I have never seen this effect so I don't really know what the conditions are. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You too freakin smart!
  • Crunchy1Crunchy1 Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19454Members
    must be a copy-paste job
  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    It's likely to be the different ways that each type of light highlights different parts of your face. Very bright light is likely to make some details hard to see, whilst strengthening shadows and thus making other details very prominent.
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Dubbilex+Aug 12 2003, 11:35 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dubbilex @ Aug 12 2003, 11:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Neck+Aug 12 2003, 10:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Neck @ Aug 12 2003, 10:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Maybe it's because YOU'RE A CHICKEN. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I uhhh......doubt it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Oh I think you are..
  • NeckNeck Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 82Members
    404, you are my god.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    Chicken, haha, no, maybe, I dunno,
    lets not start it.


    The thing I hate about white lights, there so dam|\| bright. My eyes are really sensitive to light, and our school doesn't have any windows, it is literally a bombshelter, even looks like one.

    But yea, more opinions for the better
  • r4m3n_n00dlesr4m3n_n00dles Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
    edited August 2003
    -Crunchy-:<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->must be a copy-paste job<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    No, it's not a copy-paste, I typed that all out from my memory of chemistry class a few months ago. Gotta use that knowledge somewhere or it just dies <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • VyvnVyvn Join Date: 2002-08-24 Member: 1226Members
    Yeah, my bathroom is lit by those metal filament things, which are really more of an orangey-yellow light than pure white, so my face always looks nice and evenly colored and a kinda nice tone.

    Then I go outside and my nose looks really red and all I get are jokes about how freakin white I am.

    *feels sad*
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    Its because half of you people havnt crawled out of your room for a period of six years, so bright lights make your skin burn and writh, and I imagine you look pretty different with that happens.
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