Teacher Resources
1. Light
2. Spectra
3. Color
4. Temperature
5. Composition
Final Projects
Playground
Welcome to the Playground!
This Spectrum Tool will help you connect the visual color display of a light source's spectrum—like the color image you see in a spectroscope—with a graph of the light's spectrum.
Import your own spectrum data
(text or csv)
Source 1:
Select category
Lamps
Stars
Nature
Atoms and Molecules
Solar System
Exoplanets
Exoplanet Models
Thermal Spectra
Fish Tank Lights
Fish Tank Inhabitants
Painting Regions
Paint Pigments
Draw
Uploaded file
Brightness
Full-intensity spectrum background
Transparency increases or decreases based on chart intensity, hiding or revealing the background
Left axis ticks
Spectrum intensity vs wavelength chart
Bottom axis ticks
Wavelength
(Microns)
Plot type
Line chart
Scatter plot
Plot width: 100%
Units
Microns
Nanometers
Ångstroms
Electron volts
Normalize data
All
Visible
None
Source 2:
Select category
Lamps
Stars
Nature
Atoms and Molecules
Solar System
Exoplanets
Exoplanet Models
Thermal Spectra
Fish Tank Lights
Fish Tank Inhabitants
Painting Regions
Paint Pigments
Draw
Uploaded file
Brightness
Full-intensity spectrum background
Transparency increases or decreases based on chart intensity, hiding or revealing the background
Left axis ticks
Spectrum intensity vs wavelength chart
Bottom axis ticks
Wavelength
(Microns)
Import your own spectrum data
(text or csv)