Click A Sunset

I'm looking forward to the day the flexible displays get gigantic and cheap. How cool would it be that on any whim, I could change backdrops and lighting to any mood or scenery from any place or time - even places not on this planet - all with the click of a button? (For a guy that can't even draw stick figures, this would be heaven!)

The waiting is the hard part.

I have given some thought in purchasing this system for my layout, but as cool as it would be to have great sunset lighting the cost is just too high.  

It is a great system for many applications.  I too thought it would be great for train layouts.  You could even do an Aurora Borealis night sky with several of the bulbs: that would be very cool. 

Our local club had layout open houses a couple of weeks ago and one of the fellows had installed that in his train room.  It was a very small room, but I was blown away by how he was able to control the light in it.  It was controlled right from his Ipad.  

He went from daylight to a really cool orange dusk to blueish nightime.  I'd never heard of it before, so, upon getting home I looked up the system and found it on Amazon.  Not only was the $199 system that Lee mentioned but almost another dozen variations.  Now I am wondering how I can find an application to install it. 

I've read about display screens, TV basically, that are as thin and flexible as a sheet of plastic.  And at a price it would be considered 'disposable' when it breaks or 'burns out'. I can see these being used as a 'live' moving backdrop for model layouts. You could change time of day, types of weather or even scenes and eras!! That's the breakthrough I am waiting for.

This color graph shows the effects of adding (3) primary light colors. Red, Green, and Blue.

Yellow is a combination of Green and Red light.

Cyan is a combination of Green and Blue light.

Magenta is a combination of Red and Blue light

White is combination of all three lights.  Red, Blue, and Green

So if you have a 3 circuit track lighting system and install Red, Green, and Blue Bulbs, each on it's own circuit, by varying the intensities of each circuit you should be able to do what has been mentioned.  I use to do this demonstration as part of a high school Physics class 40 years ago.  Same applies to this discussion.  You should be able to purchase Red, Green and Blue flood lamps or filters as needed.  Three circuit track lighting is available.  Each $60 lamp should be able to do this.  

Eliot:  Buy three colored flood lamps, Red, Green and Blue, experiment with them.   It does sound like an interesting color/intensity control system. 

Best wishes with your project.

Mike

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