Traditional ambient light
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Traditional ambient light
Hello,
I cannot decide on an ambient light on my E Class, so I thought to just use the traditional ambient light that Mercedes uses before the 64 color came out. In my older BMWs they used to have amber (reddish orange) as their ambient lighting in the mid 2000s up to my 2012 BMW 5 series. Anybody know what ambient light color Mercedes Benz traditionally used before the adjustable lighting came out?
I cannot decide on an ambient light on my E Class, so I thought to just use the traditional ambient light that Mercedes uses before the 64 color came out. In my older BMWs they used to have amber (reddish orange) as their ambient lighting in the mid 2000s up to my 2012 BMW 5 series. Anybody know what ambient light color Mercedes Benz traditionally used before the adjustable lighting came out?
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The old color is that of typical incandescent bulbs which is called warm white and is slightly orange. You can try to simulate it by choosing it on the scale of colors but I don't think it has a name you can ask the car to use. At least I've never tried to ask the car so I don't know.
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Hello,
I cannot decide on an ambient light on my E Class, so I thought to just use the traditional ambient light that Mercedes uses before the 64 color came out. In my older BMWs they used to have amber (reddish orange) as their ambient lighting in the mid 2000s up to my 2012 BMW 5 series. Anybody know what ambient light color Mercedes Benz traditionally used before the adjustable lighting came out?
I cannot decide on an ambient light on my E Class, so I thought to just use the traditional ambient light that Mercedes uses before the 64 color came out. In my older BMWs they used to have amber (reddish orange) as their ambient lighting in the mid 2000s up to my 2012 BMW 5 series. Anybody know what ambient light color Mercedes Benz traditionally used before the adjustable lighting came out?
The old color is that of typical incandescent bulbs which is called warm white and is slightly orange. You can try to simulate it by choosing it on the scale of colors but I don't think it has a name you can ask the car to use. At least I've never tried to ask the car so I don't know.
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Fair enough, I mean come to think of it, only MB has 64 colours (seriously curious how they came up with that number), most of the other automakers have way less.
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64 is a common number for computers when it comes to size or count. It represents a binary number where 1000000 = 64 or 2^6. Looked at another way you can say 000000 to 111111 has 64 possible unique values from 0 to 63. When programmers decide on maximum values, they often use powers of 2. Such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.
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64 is a common number for computers when it comes to size or count. It represents a binary number where 1000000 = 64 or 2^6. Looked at another way you can say 000000 to 111111 has 64 possible unique values from 0 to 63. When programmers decide on maximum values, they often use powers of 2. Such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.
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64 is a common number for computers when it comes to size or count. It represents a binary number where 1000000 = 64 or 2^6. Looked at another way you can say 000000 to 111111 has 64 possible unique values from 0 to 63. When programmers decide on maximum values, they often use powers of 2. Such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.
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The number 64 likely stems from the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color model, widely used in digital displays and lighting systems. In this model, colors are created by combining varying intensities of red, green, and blue light.A common configuration for LED-based systems like ambient lighting is to use a limited set of intensity levels for each color channel to simplify processing and control. If each RGB channel (red, green, blue) is assigned 4 intensity levels (e.g., 0%, 33%, 66%, 100%), the total number of possible color combinations is calculated as: 4^3 = 64 This means 64 distinct colors can be produced by combining four intensity levels for each of the three color channels.
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The number 64 likely stems from the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color model, widely used in digital displays and lighting systems. In this model, colors are created by combining varying intensities of red, green, and blue light.A common configuration for LED-based systems like ambient lighting is to use a limited set of intensity levels for each color channel to simplify processing and control. If each RGB channel (red, green, blue) is assigned 4 intensity levels (e.g., 0%, 33%, 66%, 100%), the total number of possible color combinations is calculated as: 4^3 = 64 This means 64 distinct colors can be produced by combining four intensity levels for each of the three color channels.
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The number 64 likely stems from the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color model, widely used in digital displays and lighting systems. In this model, colors are created by combining varying intensities of red, green, and blue light.A common configuration for LED-based systems like ambient lighting is to use a limited set of intensity levels for each color channel to simplify processing and control. If each RGB channel (red, green, blue) is assigned 4 intensity levels (e.g., 0%, 33%, 66%, 100%), the total number of possible color combinations is calculated as: 4^3 = 64 This means 64 distinct colors can be produced by combining four intensity levels for each of the three color channels.
You are likely close to what they are actually using. There a few combinations that would not be useful such as when all three RGB values are 0, there would be no light. In addition when all are the same intensity its just a shade of gray or in the case of light, just a dimmer white. That drops 4 possibilities from the list making it only 60 colors. Im not a light expert, but I believe there is a known algorithm for the typical 64 colors for RGB LEDs. When I have more time, I may Google it. I think it is close to what you have suggested though.
