[lsaferite]

I started working with a hyperspectral imager a while back and the idea of storing image data in 3 wide bands seems so odd to me now. Just the fact that my HSI captures 25 distinct 4nm bands inside a single 100nm band of what we are used to with a 3-band image is awesome.

Sorry, I get excited every time I work with hyperspec stuff now and love talking about it to anyone that will listen.

[meindnoch]

Hyperspectral imaging has its applications. A hyperspectral display on the other hand makes no sense (unless your target audience consists of mantis shrimps).

[mncharity]

> I get excited every time I work with hyperspec stuff now and love talking about it to anyone that will listen.

Color is widely taught down to K-2, but content and outcomes are poor. So I was exploring how one might better teach color, with an emphasis on spectra. Using multispectral/hyperspectral images of everyday life, objects, and art, seemed an obvious opportunity. Mousing over images like[1] for example, showing spectra vaguely like[2]. But I found very few (non-terrain) images that were explicitly open-licensed for reuse. It seemed the usual issue - there's so much nice stuff out there, living only on people's disks, for perceived lack of interest in it. So FWIW, I note I would have been delighted to find someone had made such images available. Happy to chat about the area.

[1] http://www.ok.sc.e.titech.ac.jp/res/MSI/MSIdata31.html [2] https://imgur.com/a/teaching-color-using-spectra-zOtxQwe