Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors

Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by rsync on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:53AM (#21662363)

"Yes, I think that's right - we have 20,000 lumens in our office and it is pretty cool, except you can't see your screen when it's up all the way."

Can you elaborate ? 20k lumens doesn't seem like that much ...

I see residential interior decorating guidelines at about 20 lumens per square foot for non-intense areas like living rooms[1], etc., which implies a 1000 sf office (smallish) conservatively lit with 20k lumens.

I just put 11k lumens of background lighting in a 400sf living room and I am worried it's a bit under-lit, given 12 foot ceilings.

I think that perhaps you are talking about something different than I think you are ?

[1] As opposed to kitchens where I see 50-80 lumens per square foot recommended...

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Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by herf on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:56AM (#21663589)

My office is not that big, so yes it is quite intense there. But, I should say just that system is capable of delivering >500 vertical melanopic lux (which is a metric based on holding the meter vertically rather than pointing "up"), and this feels remarkably bright.

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