building-envelope-data / api

API specification to exchange data about building envelopes
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Should "red", "green" and "blue" be added to `"wavelengths": { "integral"` #321

Closed christoph-maurer closed 3 months ago

christoph-maurer commented 3 months ago

Sometimes, optical data is provided for three colors of the visible spectrum. It would be easy to add "red", "green" and "blue" to the enumeration of "wavelengths": { "integral".

An alternative is to use the peaks of spectra "red", "green" and "blue" and to use "wavelengths": { "wavelength" instead of integral. This alternative has the drawback, that it is not obvious which wavelength equals "red", "green" and "blue". However, it isn't obvious when using "red", "green" and "blue" as "integral" neither. Instead, it would need to be infered from the applied method which is difficult to do in an automated way.

I want to avoid to have to ways to express the same data. Therefore, I don't plan to add "red", "green" and "blue" to the enumeration of "wavelengths": { "integral".