Color Temperature node. (9.5)

Here is a tutorial about realistically coloring light sources using color temperature. Every light source has a specific temperature in Kelvin.
Cinema4d 9.5 has a nifty little node to help us convert these values to hues and it is called...Color Temperature as expected.
It is very simple and needs no explanation at all. Just enter a value and it gives you a color. Connect the output to the color of your lights and you will get the results you need.

color temperature xpresso

Follow up:

To make things more useful I copied a part of a color temperature chart so you can lookup the values here (thanks to: http://www.3drender.com/glossary/colortemp.htm )
1700-1800 Match Flame
1850-1930 Candle Flame
2000-3000 Sunset and Sunrise
2500-2900 Tungsten bulb
3200-3500 Quarts light
3200-7500 Fluorescent light
5000-5400 Direct Sun at noon
5500-6500 Daylight
6000-7500 Sky overcast
7000-8000 Outdoor shade areas
8000-10000 Sky partly clouded

Values for common light-bulbs are provided by most manufacturers.
Interior architects are commonly confronted with light temperature issues and could find this xpresso node quite useful.

Here is a .gif that gives a general idea of what happens, sorry for the colors it is a gif.

color-temperature

I have posted more info in the comments of this subject...

comments closed due to a lot of spam here, probably some words in the text trigger spam!

6 comments

Comment from: base80 [Member] Email : 2005-10-10 @ 17:35
SOURCE DEGREES K
Artificial Light:
Match Flame 1700
Candle Flame 1850
40-Watt Incandescent Tungsten Lamp 2650
75-Watt Incandescent Tungsten Lamp 2820
100-Watt Incandescent Tungsten Lamp 2865
500-Watt Incandescent Tungsten Lamp 2960
Professional Tungsten Photo Lamp 3200
Color Photography Studio Tungsten Lamp 3350
Photoflood or Reflector Flood Lamp 3400
Daylight Blue Photoflood Lamp 4800

Daylight (Sunlight is the light of the sun only.
Daylight combines sunlight and skylight.)

Sunlight: Sunrise of Sunset 2000
Sunlight: One Hour After Sunrise 3500
Sunlight: Early Morning or Late Afternoon 4300
Average Summer Sunlight at Noon in the Mid-latitudes 5400
Direct Mid-Summer Sunlight 5800
Overcast Sky 6000
Daylight + Fluorescent Lamp 6300
Average Summer Sunlight (plus blue skylight) 6500
Light Summer Shade 7100
Average Summer Shade 8000
Summer Skylight (varies) 9500 – 30,000
Comment from: base80 [Member] Email : 2005-10-10 @ 18:00
For more light-bulb temperature look here http://www.topbulb.com/
The specifie the temperature of every product they sell. Nice
Comment from: imogen [Visitor] : 2005-10-13 @ 11:08
could you please provide an example c4d-file?
thanx
Comment from: base80 [Member] Email : 2005-10-13 @ 12:29
As this is a fairly strait forward xpresso so I will not provide a sample model. The purpose of this site is to show possibilities of cinema4d and xpresso but not to do the work for you. If however one would like to get files or set-ups I am open to any suggestion (€).
Comment from: Jake L [Visitor] : 2005-10-15 @ 14:15
Just wanted to say BIG thanks for all the Xpresso revelations in nice, bite-size chunks! Your site is indeed a top-level C4D bookmark for me

Interesting stuff nicely done - keep it up!
Comment from: al'be:do [Visitor] : 2010-03-02 @ 17:05
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One shouldn't forget the displayed colors are only correct relative to D65 (6500 K) as whitepoint. This is the case if you're working in sRGB color space.

C4D does not consider white point adaptation if the white point of your image is different from that. But you could correct that with a bit of matrix calculation.

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