Lindbloom has something that can give you an approximation.
I don't think I need to comment on much more than that. I'd love to see a magnification of your mica! I doubt it shows anything but iridescense. I've seen his stuff over at LumenLabs and I'm not impressed. It appears brighter on axis but off axis it's a lot darker. I have some pearls still. This week I'll mix them up and get some more readings.
Some of the things that have gone on in the past are coming up again it seems in the DIY world. One of the things that Bill and I wanted to do when we came here is to build a forum on hard data, not conjecture. We worked hard to do that and to make it so. And it never would have been possible without the few knowledgeable folks who followed us here from elsewhere - <^..^>Smokey Joe, benven, biglyle, etc. And then some of the new folks such as our third moderator Jim. Things here need to be as scientific as we're capable of, or else we've become what we feared.
That being said, mica is an iridescent. The scientific community states as such and I accept it. Not only because they say as much but because I've witnessed it, documented it, and tested it. So to say that it exhibits no iridescence I'd need proof. And then I'd need to conduct my own tests. Because if it's color shifting spectrally, as we've shown all the pearl topcoats to do in the past, then it will color shift the image being projected.
Now on the flip side of things. When used intelligently, mica exhibits none of the ill effects of previous (and more than likely new) formulas. All one has to do is take a good hard look at CGiv and at some of the screens DaLite makes. Find the correlation!
Let's hear the formula, I'll paint up a panel and check it out with HCFR.
Certain folks, while under the guise of helping - and helping they do - usually, are usually nothing more than glory seekers. I have no time for glory seekers. And I have no time for individuals who can be 'nice' one minute and then downright mean the next. These types of folks love the drama of being involved. They send out pm's, start threads with something along the lines of "my wife's upset with the wires hanging in the living room" to "I'm having health issues" to "there's been an intervention". All under the guise of quitting in order to gain sympathy. I've witnessed one individual do this over six times in the last two years! I felt bad for him at first but now it's kinda like the boy who cried wolf! Oh yeah I believe he's currently on a reprieve from quitting as he has a few things he wants to finish up!
Same guy who won't send any samples to be spectro'd!
Harp and other members who read this, you gotta ask yourself, "do I really want to trust this individual?" I chose after the last battle he dragged me into that I do not. Especially after the Black Widow release and the constant 'badgering' of both Bill and I on how to paint metallics! As if he invented it! As if there were no directions! Some folks think they're bigger than all of us. Me? I think we're all the same until someone shows me otherwise.
Your mileage may vary, but just because someone posts a lot doesn't make them smart! Look at me!
mech
PS - Shoot me his SNOW mix so I can look at it next week. At least I've always been honest, brutally honest... and I think I always will.
Now back to the investigations.
