Member Voxelman Posted February 9, 2011 Member Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 f.lux A free download that filters out eye straining light from your PC Monitor. PC Monitor light is made to be bright so the screen is nice and visible. This is great during the day...not so great in the evening or those wee hours of the morning. Even so, this bright light during the day is not a good thing on your eyes. f.lux changes all that. It filters the bright light and gradually reduces it's brightness the darker it gets outside. It does this in relation to the real-time daylight outside. I've been using it for afew months now, and it is amazing. It really helps. Here's to less PC Monitor light induced eyestrain. f.lux Did I mention it is a free download? NOTE: It is not recommended on calibrated systems running Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member polyxo Posted February 9, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 That Software may work well for people typing text-documents and such. But not for anyone involved with Graphics. A badly calibrated Monitor is crap but a Monitor which even gradually shifts its colour-temperatures over the day is even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Voxelman Posted February 10, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 That Software may work well for people typing text-documents and such. But not for anyone involved with Graphics. A badly calibrated Monitor is crap but a Monitor which even gradually shifts its colour-temperatures over the day is even worse. Good point. If you're Painting and Rendering, ect. it would get in the way. If all you're doing is Voxel sculpting, color is not that critical. f.lux can be turned off for those times it would interfere otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted February 10, 2011 Contributor Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 I kinda like it, it's pretty smooth changing the color temps, and when color isn't involved it indeed makes using a computer kinda relaxing. Now I'm a bit concerned about constantly changing those values: is there an impact over the life of the hardware ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Voxelman Posted February 11, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I kinda like it, it's pretty smooth changing the color temps, and when color isn't involved it indeed makes using a computer kinda relaxing. Now I'm a bit concerned about constantly changing those values: is there an impact over the life of the hardware ? I have not seen any mention of this on their site. I posted the question their and am waiting for a reply. I will post the answer here as soon as I get one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Voxelman Posted June 5, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 f.lux A free download that filters out eye straining light from your PC Monitor. PC Monitor light is made to be bright so the screen is nice and visible. This is great during the day...not so great in the evening or those wee hours of the morning. Even so, this bright light during the day is not a good thing on your eyes. f.lux changes all that. It filters the bright light and gradually reduces it's brightness the darker it gets outside. It does this in relation to the real-time daylight outside. I've been using it for afew months now, and it is amazing. It really helps. Here's to less PC Monitor light induced eyestrain. f.lux Did I mention it is a free download? NOTE: It is not recommended on calibrated systems running Windows. !!!...UPDATE...!!! I was running FLUX for afew months. After a month or so, my PC began to random reboot. As time progressed, it occured more often. Like every few hours! I came to the conclusion FLUX was making this happen, because shortly after I deleted it and removed it from my PC, I no longer had the random reboots. That was afew months ago. I have had no random rebbots since removing FLUX. I have Windows 7. I RECOMMEND NOT USING THIS SOFTWARE. Sorry for talking it up before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted June 5, 2011 Contributor Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I removed the software a few weeks after testing it, I experienced major slowdown using 3d software during the color temp transitions and when I say major it's like waiting 3 minutes to get back to normal.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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