HD Retina is a high definition LED that saturates, in a perfectly balanced fashion, both warm and cold colours at the same time, making them pleasant on the human eye and giving them their natural colour. This is why this type of LED is well-suited to multiple areas of application and – in particular – has been designed for all general lighting situations in which different colour objects need to be illuminated all together in a single ambiance.
We normally say that it is sunlight which gives ideal visual comfort, but in actual fact this is not the case, because even bright sunlight tends to distort colour. The idea was therefore first to define a natural light that can be considered ideal on the eye and then to construct a source able to replicate that light in a closed environment. Research and experiments have shown that the light considered ideal in terms of visual comfort and giving a faithful representation of colour is that which our eye perceives “at dawn and at dusk”, when the source par excellence – the sun – illuminates them indirectly, with a colour temperature of between 3,500 K and 3,700 K.
Apart from the quality of light effectively perceived, the innovation is a different, but equally real, perspective with which to consider colour. Colour, in fact, is not a physical characteristic of objects, but rather the result of the visual perception of the light that illuminates them. It is the human eye that reconstructs colours on the basis of a source that illuminates them and recognises the different shades. On the other hand, when we look at an object and recall it to our memory, that object will always be associated with a single, unique colour, which we recognise as familiar and perceive as its “real”, or “ideal” colour, which is, in actual fact, that associated with the objects in an ideal context of the natural light of dawn and dusk.
This is, therefore, very briefly, the innovative heart achieved by HD Retina LED: technology able to make colours true to those the memory associates with familiar objects, with excellent colour saturation, making an unprecedented result possible with any artificial light source.
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