I would like a slight shift in the hues of the photon spectrum.
Currently:
red - yellow - green - aqua - blue
Proposed:
red-orange - yell-green - green-blue - blue-green - blue-violet
Or maybe:
red - yellow - green - aqua - violet
(This suggestion may break old saves. There should be a Photon Shift mode, similar to Ambient Heat and Newtowanian Gravity modes.)
It would also make sense to have an intensity value of the spectral lines. Simply adding tmp as a half-intensity marker would work. (CTYPE data would describe emitting of the wavelength at full intensity, and TMP would describe emitting at half-intensity.) (This won't break old saves.)
Uses:
Shift:
* Create spectral blue-violet laser, using corrospending light.
Shift Alternative:
* Create spectral violet laser, using violet light.
Intensity:
* Easy peasy purple laser, using half-intensity red and blue.
* Photons make more sense with intensity.
| TMP | Action | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Assign | A red photon passes through a green filter, the photon becomes green |
| 1 | Filter | A turquoise (green + blue) photon passes through a purple (blue + red) filter, the filter removes any colour that isn't red or blue, photon becomes blue |
| 2 | Add | A green photon passes through a red filter, the red is added to the colour and the photon becomes orange (red + green) |
| 3 | Subtract | A white (red + green + blue) photon passes through a purple (blue + red) filter, the blue and red are removed and it becomes green |
Simon:
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, is this a change to the way photons or FILT works? Currently, FILT has some undocumented modes where it can Add, subtract and filter colours based on it's TMP value.
TMP Action Example 0 Assign A red photon passes through a green filter, the photon becomes green 1 Filter A turquoise (green + blue) photon passes through a purple (blue + red) filter, the filter removes any colour that isn't red or blue, photon becomes blue 2 Add A green photon passes through a red filter, the red is added to the colour and the photon becomes orange (red + green) 3 Subtract A white (red + green + blue) photon passes through a purple (blue + red) filter, the blue and red are removed and it becomes green
I understand these, but this is not my suggestion.
I suggested a change to the photons. Better explained:
I think we should change the colours that make up the photon spectrum.
red -> red-orange
yellow -> yellow-green
green -> green-aqua
aqua -> aqua-blue
blue -> blue-violet
I think we should also allow half-intensity spectra in photons.
EX. dark pink photons.
Maybe it'd be a good idea to act on fewer photons instead of acting on half-intensity spectral properties.
Reply to Edit: Good spotting out! However, as the change is very little, little of the community would say no.