Reflective Paint

[LORD BENIS]

Wondering if anyone has experience using reflective paint on their walls. Sorta like that paint you see on street signs along the highway at night. It uses tiny beads of glass that shine when a point source of light of shone onto them; like car headlights, or a 1000 watt hps bulb Only problem is they may exaggerate light leaks at night. Any thoughts?

 

[Sloppy Seconds]

The one thought that comes to mind is the possible added heat, you mentioned the glass beads, they might play against each other and add heat.(light against light)
Just a thought, however you might have something here!
Good luck.

 

[Quazi]

While the glass beads sound nice, it sounds like you'd end up absorbing and refracting a lot of the light instead of reflecting it. People stray from using mirrors as reflectors for this reason.

Think about it for a sec: if your headlight shines on the sign, the sign appears to illuminate and glow. You don't get blinded from the high reflectivity on the sign. This means the sign is probably taking the light and dispersing it across the surface of the sign, not reflecting it back towards you.

The last thing you want is a reflector that makes the reflector bright instead of making the surfaces opposite the reflector bright.



-Q

 

[Miko]

beads of glass that shine

Exactly! You've answered your own question. They just shine. I am thinking light goes through them, ping-pongs in many different ways and weakens. Glass filtration + numerous reflections. You do get that shiny texture but I doubt it will stand against high density white paint or mylar.

 

[K.J]

Plain old flat white paint is one of the best reflective surfaces around (especially for the price). In fact, my research seems to indicate that it's as good, if not better, than mylar.

 

[LORD BENIS]

Way to rain on my parade ya'll just kidding, now that I think about it makes sense that it wouldn't work, thanks though.

 

[Deviant420]

Plain old flat white paint is one of the best reflective surfaces around (especially for the price). In fact, my research seems to indicate that it's as good, if not better, than mylar.

Better believe it.