"new color process" from China?

[Nitrous]

No sure if this is the right forum for this topic, but I ran across what seems to be a modern variation of Lippmann's process. The idea of color prints from transparent ink.... Has it any place in alternative processes?

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-transparent-ink-images.html

 

[MattKing]

Moved to the Hybrid Discussion sub-forum.

 

[Nitrous]

Moved to the Hybrid Discussion sub-forum.

thanks!
Sorry for using the wrong forum
doug

 

[AgX]

what seems to be a modern variation of Lippmann's process.

I do not see it as variation of the Lippmann proces, to far off to me. But both processes share that they are based not on absorption (dyes) for colour production, but on interfence. The results of such are meanwhile called "structural colours".

 

[AgX]

Moved to the Hybrid Discussion sub-forum.

It is not a hybrid, but a pure digital process.

 

[MattKing]

It is not a hybrid, but a pure digital process.

No, but the question relates to its potential use in a hybrid workflow.
Just like digital negatives.

 

[AgX]

I do not read it this way, but I got your point.

 

[Nitrous]

It is not a hybrid, but a pure digital process.

Could you explain to me the "purely digital" nature of this process?
Interference patterns aren't digital, are they?
I've never heard structural color being described as "digital"
It certainly is an alternative process to produce colors

 

[AgX]

"Could you explain to me the "purely digital" nature of this process?"
You need a digital image file and a digital printer.to produce this dot pattern.

"Interference patterns aren't digital, are they?"
In this case they are. It seems to me you did not understand that paper. Interference as such is not digital, but in this case interference is applied digitally.

I've never heard structural color being described as "digital""
Structural colour is a rather new term. And I did not describe it as digital. But in this case structural colour is applied digitally.

"It certainly is an alternative process to produce colors "
I did not question this.


I am busy with imaging systems and so far structural colour never got out of a tiny niche in photography. As attractive and simple it seems problems are envisible already. But Fischer with his couplers was as this stage too about 100 years ago, when he got stuck... And structural colour can yield amazing results.
In this very case the digital approach seems the promising way.

 

[gone]

Well, I've never heard of structural color and I'm a painter, it's either additive or subtraction color. So I looked it up and I have no idea how something like that could be used in photography to any great extent, but now at least I know what it is. How could that be hung on a wall though? Would something composed of structural colors look that different that the usual manner?

 

[AgX]

Well, I've never heard of structural color and I'm a painter, it's either additive or subtraction color.

Subtractive colour is obviously caused by filtration. And as painter you still handle this as dye filtration. But in most enlargers this already is structural colour...

In the context of this thread though with structural colour is meant that the image information itself is structural colour.