Luke Hellwig, assistant professor of Science and Math, co-authored a paper in the journal Scientific Reports titled “Influence of color on glare perception revealed when seeing the sun through colored glazing.”
In an experiment conducted in a simulated office environment with sunlight coming through an office window, Hellwig and his collaborators found that the sun was more disruptive to experiment participants when it passed through red- or blue-colored glazing on the window, as opposed to neutral or green glazing. Hellwig, who teaches color science at FIT, helped the research team apply a model of color perception, which he developed in his graduate research, to explain how the chromatic saturation of the different color glazings may have influenced the observers’ perception of glare.