Abstract

The use of conventional color slides for continuous displays and archival storage is made less than ideal by the fading of the organic dyes with time. The fading problems are extremely severe in systems where high intensity projection systems are used on a continuous basis. Significant fading occurs in one to two hours of continuous showing; after eight hours the slides are severely bleached. The slide production technique that we describe will circumvent the inherent problems with dye based color systems by using thin film interference stacks to generate the colors.

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