Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Koichiro Maeyama

Masato Saito

Michihiro Tsuchihashi

Osamu Myodo

Makoto Yamanoshita

Hidetoshi Katsura

Yasushi Uchida

Beautifully and balanced colored shadows can be imparted by arranging an R unit for light sources for yellow to red; a G unit for light sources for green and a B unit for light sources for violet to blue with each predetermined space wherein each unit comprises a plurality of light sources in each group adjacent each other.

Method of lighting for colored shadows

Beautifully and balancedly colored shadows can be imparted by arranging color lamps in three R, G and B groups, illuminating an object to obtain colored shadows of the object to give the ratios of illuminances by the color light lamps; ##EQU1## in a range surrounded by the following ratios of j-k-l-m-n-e-f-j in the triangular coordinate of FIG. 2 wherein I.sub.R designates an illuminance by only the lamp in the R group; I.sub.G designates an illuminance by only the lamp in the G group and I.sub.B designates an illuminance by only the lamp in the B group.

Beautifully and balancedly colored shadows can be imparted by arranging color lamps in three R, G and B groups and a white light lamp for white light (W group), illuminating objects to obtain colored shadows of the objects, giving the ratio of illuminance by the white light lamp: ##EQU1## wherein I.sub.W designates an illuminance at the part illuminated by only the white light lamp, and also the illuminance in the shadows to the lights of the lamps of the three R, G and B groups; and I.sub.R designates an illuminance at the part illuminated by only the lamp of the R group in the shadow of the object to both of the lights of the lamps of the G group and the B group; I.sub.G designates an illuminance at the part illuminated by only the lamp in the G group in the shadow of the object to both of the lights of the lamps in the R group and the B group and I.sub.B designates an illuminance at the part illuminated by only the lamp in the B group in the shadow of the object to both of the lights of the lamps in the R group and the G group.

Beautifully and balanced colored shadows can be cast of an object by using a lamp for emitting colored light in the range yellow to red, a lamp for emitting green colored light and a lamp for emitting colored light in the range violet to blue to give intensity ratios of illumination in the ranges of

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Kamakura, Japan

Koichiro Maeyama