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For black body light emission, is the temperature value just a relative number, or is it based off a real world value such as Kelvin?


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
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it's a true kelvin temperature for a blackbody emission spectrum.

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radiance wrote:it's a true kelvin temperature for a blackbody emission spectrum.

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Okay, that's what it was looking like.
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