When a colour looks different due to light. - Carl2
Could someone please tell me. When a colour looks different in different light conditions its called meta-? I did know this but now have such a rubbish memory its easier to ask someone else. Thanks
When a colour looks different due to light. - Mick Snutz
Metamers?

Google it. There's an in-depth article on Wickipedia on colour.
When a colour looks different due to light. - the swiss tony
Could someone please tell me. When a colour looks different in different light conditions its
called meta-?


A poor respray??
When a colour looks different due to light. - hillman
The Mazda 6 of a few years ago had a paint finish that looked different depending on which direction the light fell. Swmbo refused to consider it as a purchase, saying that she wanted a car that didn't change colour every time she looked at it.
When a colour looks different due to light. - kithmo
It's known to be metameric.
When a colour looks different due to light. - bell boy
its known as mica based to me
When a colour looks different due to light. - Lygonos
Barryboy flip paint.

aka "has a small scratch, I've been quoted £30 to get it touched up" on eBay adds for paint that is £400 a litre.
When a colour looks different due to light. - bell boy
flip flop
it was normally between £50 and £200 a litre
When a colour looks different due to light. - Lud
Tangerine flake... made from fish scales... very small ones, from a dwindling population of tiny endangered innocent little fish... ought to be banned...
When a colour looks different due to light. - bell boy
why would you want to ban such helpless little fishies though :-(
maybe get prunella scales to supply them if they arent fawlty?
When a colour looks different due to light. - Dynamic Dave
Lets not forget pearlescent paint.
When a colour looks different due to light. - madux
My Volvo is supposed to be green. Usually it looks blue.
You may gather from this disclosure that I am not as paranoid as Mr X.
I did a bit of speeding on the bike on Sunday but I don't think Westpig et al will be scouring Wiltshire in search of a green Volvo.
When a colour looks different due to light. - Lud
My car is white, but looks filthy because it is. It's visible on Google street view too, with the number not wholly obscured.

I'm looking forward to Westpig passing by for a few scoops and a conversation about his and my er, stretchings of the envelope of strict legality for purposes of pleasure and practicality.

Or perhaps he will run me in under the fifty-year rule for past bits of hooliganism I have boastfully admitted here. Risky place, the internet.
When a colour looks different due to light. - Carl2
Spot on as usual. Thanks. came up when yellow seemed to look like green under artificial lighting.
When a colour looks different due to light. - Graham567
My Vectra is Panacotta which is a pearlescent colour.
In some lights it looks gold,other lights it looks silver and also grey sometimes.

If the sunlight catches it just right it can be gold at the front going into silver at the back.
I really like the effect as its like having different cars on different days!