

If you have a string of 50 smart pixels then you can control the color of each individual light on that string. Smart pixels mean you control the color of each light. Now you know where we got the phrase: any light, any color at any time. 50 lights on your smart pixel string? Each light can be any color. 50 sections on your smart pixel ribbon? Each section can be any color. That’s three control channels and it’s typically called a pixel.Ī smart pixel light ribbon or smart pixel light string means every pixel is individually controllable. You create the final color by controlling the individual brightness of red, green and blue. By varying the intensities of the red, green and blue sources, the bulb appears to change color. Some of the latest Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology puts the equivalent of a separate red, green and blue light source into what looks like one bulb. The rest of the world calls it RGB (Red Green Blue) technology. The scientists call it ‘additive color’ because they are added together. By varying the intensities of the red, green and blue lights we could create almost any color of the rainbow. Where all three beams overlapped in the center, there was white. Where two beams overlapped, a different color was produced. Click the picture to the right for a closer look. What if you could mix together different colors of light? We took three colored spotlight beams, one red, one green and one blue, aimed them at a white brick wall and looked at the results.

What happens when mixing a little bit of red with some yellow paint? Typically, orange.

Here’s a great example submitted by one of our customers: What’s a smart pixel? Any light, any color and you control the color.
