Colour cross-fading system for a luminaire

摘要

A color cross-fading system for a luminaire includes two filter disks or strips each provided with a multi-layer filter coating to provide a dichroic filter effect. In each case the thickness of the coating layers varies continuous along a gradient axis of the filter disk or strips. One disk acts predominantly as a long wave pass filter and the other act predominantly as a short wave pass filter, but each disk has an essentially "complex" characteristic enabling a very wide range of different colors to be obtained by cumulative subtractive filtering, by varying the positions of the two disks or strips relative to an optical axis.