Illuminate your digital realm
in the ancient light
of the future.
Analog light
“To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– Buckminster Fuller
What is Light?
What do we see when we see light? We see the source, because light itself is invisible, only the source and its reflection are. And when we look at the source, we see the photon genesis.
Light can have completely polar opposite characteristics like a wave and a particle.
Although the nature of light is apparent to our eyes, it is also so obscure that no complete description has been given.
“That which comes from the Light of the Holy Ghost is of only one species…but that which comes from the Light of Nature is of two species…”
– Paracelsus (1493–1541) †
In the universe, there are only two primary mechanisms of producing light, one is through incandescence, and the other is by luminescence. Incandescent light is produced by thermal vibration of matter until it glows, also called hot light. Luminescent light is produced through non-thermal mechanisms such as electron-hole recombination, also called cold light.
Natural incandescence comes the Sun and thunder.
Artificial incandescence comes from fire and incandescent bulbs.
Since the dawn of time, mankind has seen incandescent sources of light mostly, and the arrival of electricity revolutionized our life, and the first electric light bulb was still a continuation. It was the luminescent bulb that marked the real change in lighting, and today is ubiquitous in the interface to our modern day silicon tool, the computer. ²
Artificial luminescence comes from light emitting semiconductors and fluorescent bulbs.
Natural luminescence comes aurora borealis.
Natural luminescence also comes from some nocturnal insects, deep sea creatures and will-o’-the-wisp.
“And created jinn from a smokeless flame of fire.”
– Surah 55:15
Paradoxically, the most efficient mechanism to produce light in the universe is by incandescence, because it produces more total photons (lux) from the same amount of energy, compared to luminescence, however much of this light is invisible infrared, so it appears as if it produces less light, but this is only because we can’t see it, not because it does not exist. However, because luminescence has the ability to produce only certain bands of frequencies, it can appear to produce more visibility (lumens) by the same amount of energy, making them both useful in their unique advantages and properties.
“Market by Candlelight.”
Petrus van Schendel, 1870.
Candle light spectrum.
Not all light is created equal, a candle and a fluorescent tube both create light, but they do not create the same world around them, because light itself is also part of the message. Luminescent light is a discontinuous light because it has real spectral voids and has a narrow spectra, on the other hand incandescent light is a continuous light and has a broad spectra. Both are useful for different things and it is important to understand that something with wholeness will always cost more than something incomplete.
Electro-luminescent spectrum.
“99 Cent.”
Andreas Gursky, 1999.
For example because incandescence has an uninterrupted and broadband spectrum, its unmatched for applications that require high chromatic rendering. Something luminescence can’t compete with because it has inherently a discontinuous and narrowband spectrum, that although may appear white to the eye, it has real spectral voids, where there is literally no light present. However, luminescence is king for digital information transmission, because it lacks thermal inertia, something incandescence cant compete with because its thermal inertia prevents it. ¹
“The Glory of Saint Augustine.”
Philippe de Champaigne, 1645.
Incandescent light is made from an increase in entropy energy through classical mechanics.
“Light is the principal person in a painting.”
– Edouard Manet
“The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus.”
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.
Luminescent light is made from a decrease in entropy energy through quantum mechanics.
Entropy
Entropy is a fascinating deep mystery of our observable universe, entropy is commonly defined as disorder, and the lack of it as order, but this definition is not entirely accurate and seems culturally biased in defining what entropy really is. Entropy is a gradient with absolute complementary opposites, and the universe is made of both, both are equally as important, and moreover one can also exist inside the other.
“The sage travels all day over the land and sea,
but does not lose sight of Infinity.”
– The Tao Verse 26
It is imperative to understand that its definition was devised during the industrial revolution, by a culture that gave more value to predictability and uniformity than to novelty, and thus saw entropy negatively as mere disorder. But this definition is outdated, culturally biased and short sighted, because in a universal sense, order and disorder are subjective, because one man’s order can be another man’s disorder. Disorder also implies waste and inefficiency, however entropy defined as novelty becomes not anthropologically subjective, as the essence of entropy is novelty and it can also be very important and useful, defining entropy more fairly and fully.
“Information without entropy is death.”
– Claude Shannon
For example, take an inhabited house and an abandoned one, the inhabited looks far more ordered than the abandoned, but paradoxically the inhabited has higher entropy as it has more unexpected events happening constantly, yet appears ordered. And the abandoned one, having lower entropy, as it has far fewer unexpected events happening constantly, appears disordered. If the amount of disorder is what defines entropy, then the abandoned house should appear more ordered than the inhabited one. But novelty can exist in both ordered and disordered configurations, as long as they are unpredictable, and so the inhabited house can have higher novelty than the uninhabited, while still being more ordered. A mathematical proof of novelty and order in the same place can be found in the the Lorenz attractor and the Mandelbrot set.
“ Without looking out of the window,
one can know The Way of Heaven.”
– The Tao Verse 47
Entropy in light is measured by the amount of possibilities in its properties such as its phase, frequency, polarization and direction. Higher entropy corresponds to wider possibilities in its configurations, while lower entropy corresponds to less variations and more uniformity. Incandescence is a light that naturally gravitates towards high entropy, and luminescence towards low entropy, both gradients of entropy are extremely useful and have their unique applications in our modern world, technology and art.
“ The eye sees the present and the future.”
– Salvador Dali
Finally, no comprehensive study of light can be complete without mentioning the incredibly enigmatic relationship between light and time, which has been explored through the ages, most recently by minds like Einstein, Feynman and Wheeler. In more than one way, light defines the passage of time for the universe, physically and phenomenologically, for example in very low-entropy coherent light sources, such as lasers, the photonic information that arrives to the eyes and brain follows predictable patterns because the structure of the photons are more repetitive and uniform, and so consciousness doesn’t have to engage with novelty, therefore time compresses because its not really experiencing moments distinctly. But in the other hand in high-entropy incoherent light sources, photonic information is genuinely unpredictable, in other words, the eyes and brain are constantly encountering novelty, patterns that it couldn’t have deduced from the past. Therefore consciousness is forced to engage with true novelty, which means there is more to perceive, and time stretches.
SpectrumView monitors makes the user experience a form of analog time dilation from what can be transmitted by ultra high entropy light per second.
Electro-incandescent light emitters are made from low entropy glass and metal, and can generate some of the highest entropy light in the universe.
Incandescent photons have very high-entropy incoherence, meaning they have very broad degrees of freedom and novelty in its variations.
Luminescent photons can have very low-entropy and high coherence and can be fully coherent like lasers, meaning they are very constrained and can have very little or no variations.
Solid state electro-luminescent light emitters are made from low entropy silicon wafers and can generate some of the lowest entropy light in the universe.
Frontier computing can experience a form of digital time dilation from what can be transmitted by ultra low entropy light per second.
Analog signals are continuous and spiral like, while digital signals are on/off steps, both have their unique and very useful indispensable applications.
Photomodulation
“Penetrating red light is possibly the fundamental anti-stress factor for all organisms.”
– Ray Peat
Photomodulation is the ability for cells to regenerate by invisible infrared light, reducing ocular inflammation, alleviating photosensitivity, improving blood circulation and cognition. Infrared frequencies penetrate beyond the surface of the skin into the body, SpectrumView monitors emit a lot of broadband infrared light thanks to its incandescent nature, something completely lacking in common luminescent monitors. ¹ Semiconductors are a genuine marvel of our age, providing indispensable and very useful applications worthy of praise and reverence, however when it comes to producing light for prolonged screen exposure, their light nature is second class to our analog biology. ² ³
Broadband infrared light is naturally found in sunsets.
The spectrum
A spectrum is the rainbow of a light source.
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Sun spectrum.
Electro-incandescent spectrum.
Candle spectrum.
Electro-luminescent spectrum.
SpectrumView monitor white backlight and a phosphor based luminescent monitor white backlight.
Total observable color gamut as seen from a SpectrumView incandescent monitor and a common luminescent monitor.
Observable color gamut between a SpectrumView monitor and common luminescent monitor.
Observable color gamut between a SpectrumView monitor and common luminescent monitor.
Observable color gamut of a SpectrumView monitor at 10k, 6k and 2.5k in camera white balance.
Observable color gamut of a common luminescent monitor at 10k, 6k and 2.5k in camera white balance.
Applications
The inner triangles represents the frequencies a common luminescent monitor can emit, the horseshoe shape is the visible colors that we can see and that a SpectumView monitor can emit.
The ideal monitor for artistic creation, featuring the the ideal color reference of color rendering (100 CRI). (27″ present model)
The ideal monitor for offline M. set explorations. (22″ previous model)
Also ideal for screen intensive tasks, making possible completing the work that needs to be done a painless endeavor.
Also ideal for online Darshan viewing.
Also ideal for genuine photonic fidelity astrophotography viewing.
Inner workings
High photonic entropy.
Incandescent and translucent pixel conversion like stained-glass.
Prime quality materials, long lasting serviceable components, genuine brass reflecting heat-sinks and sophisticated airflow design, for a genuinely transcendental retro-illumination.
Buy
SpectrumView Mini
Solar/electro-incandescent 15″ FullHD (1920×1080), 60Hz, HDMI, 178° viewing angle, VA panel, 8 bit per pixel, 120/240V, 4 x 25W light bulbs, Width 51cm, height 37cm, depth 40cm, weight 4.3Kg. Portable and lightweight, screen size is about the size of a laptop screen.
SpectrumView 22
Solar/electro-incandescent 22″ FullHD (1920×1080), 100Hz, HDMI, VGA, 178° viewing angle, VA panel, 8 bit per pixel, 120/240V, 8 x 25W light bulbs, width 51cm, height 44cm, depth 40cm, weight 5.5Kg. Semi-portable and perfect for everyday usage.
SpectrumView Pro
Solar/electro-incandescent 27″, 2k model (2560 x 1440), 100Hz, 1ms response time, HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, 178° viewing angle, VA panel, 8 bit per pixel (or 4k 60hz 10 bit IPS panel), external power supply, 120/240V, 10 x 25W light bulbs, width 75 cm height 54cm, depth 46cm, weight 9.4Kg. Excellent for power users.
SpectrumView Starlore
Starlore solar-specific 27″ 2k (2560 x 1440), 100Hz, 1ms response time, HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, 178° viewing angle, VA panel, 8 bit per pixel, external power supply 120/240V. Width 75, height, 54 depth 40cm, weight 6.4Kg. Specially tailored for solar backlighting, ideal for spaces with ample daylight availability, has a day filter structure in the back to prevent front glare. Needs a window to place as close as possible with direct or indirect sunlight.
SpectrumView Master
Sequential tri-screen provides analog work spaces by physically rotating the monitor, ball bearings ensure an easy glide and adjustable viewing angle, gravity switch allows to turn off the screens not directly in front. 27″ 2k , (2560 x 1440), 100Hz, 1ms response time, HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, 178° viewing angle, VA panel, 8 bit per pixel, external power supply, 120/240V, 10 x 25W light bulbs, width 75cm, height 100cm, depth 66cm, weight 24Kg. Excellent for power users that require multiple workspaces.
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Technical Specifications
Traditional beeswax varnished polished wood.
Precision woodwork, thick frame and detachable copper mounts to suspend in front of a window for solar backlighting.
Legacy lightbox version is the original version.
Dymaxion lightbox is a new version and it is brighter, quieter and cooler, new orders will be made in this version unless otherwise requested.
The term “Dymaxion” was coined by legendary inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller, however the concept of advanced air dynamics with tensed metal sheets was first perfected with the advent of the cathedral organ.
“We are the architects of the future, not its victims”
– Buckminster Fuller
SpectrumView monitors are built to last and for long usage sessions, quality repairable components and wood, sophisticated airflow design, genuine brass heat-sinks, low-speed fans, substantial EMF shielding, and strong copper legs. The bulbs used are standard Edison E27 base, of the approved size and wattage for household appliances such as ovens and fridges. For Europe and other 240v countries, an inner 120/240 switch is included so you can use 120v bulbs in a 240v country, twice as many replacement bulbs are included, which should last for many years. Keep in mind that using only electro-incandescence at full intensity for the whole day will increase your electric usage, and so is recommended it to also day backlight it during the day when setup and nature permits, so the electricity consumption when using it after sunset will be compensated. Also, if used during winter the equivalent thermal energy radiated will be subtracted from your heating costs. Frontier research in nanophotonics and thermophotovoltaics will make incandescent screens more widely available in the future. ⁴
Crafted in Mexico
“The navel of the Moon”
Voice reviews:
“Its night and day…”
– SunG
“…this is very circadian friendly”
– Jordan
“…never seen colors better on a monitor”
– Anabology
