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This is awesome. Are ordinary objects bright enough to register their spectra in it?

You might also enjoy this, a project to find real world things with all the cyans you can't display on a computer screen. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-... After doing this I was looking for some way to do spectrophotometry with a small enough amount of equipment that my wife would approve of, so that I can add more things to the list and confirm their color.

Certainly. Just illuminate them with sunlight and you should be good to go.

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