For those who use their computers at night

[Wol]

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Sets the colour temperature of the monitor to match what it thinks you have in your room at the time. Currently it just makes it a bit more orange at night to match the warmer colour temp of the lights you usually have on. Definitely strains my eyes a lot less and ive been using it for about 15 mins so far!

Takes a bit of getting used to I'm told, but I'm giving it a try anyway and thought I'd see if it might help anyone else.

 

[Huung]

It'll be interesting to see how this looks during daytime... but right now it's pretty much adding an orange tinge to everything and making me sleepy.

Definitely less strain on the eyes, but mostly because I feel you lose the clarity you have with a whiter background. Still, I'm liking it, feels like a summer evening!

 

[Velaphor]

I can barely see colours so this should be a fun experiment

 

[Huung]

So come 18:07 an orange haze descended onto my screen within about 3 seconds. Not so much a subtle colour change as everything becoming rapidly orangised. The sun has now just gone down outside, so the timing is pretty impeccable, like an early warning system for it getting dark

 

[Ronin Storm]

I saw a link to this from somewhere else a little while back but this served as a prompt for me to actually try it out.

The default drop to coolest colours was much too much for me, certainly at first pass. I've pushed the night colours to around half way up the scale (4900K) and that seems more acceptable. I've also changed it to the 1 hour slow migration of temperature, though sundown had already occurred when I installed it so I've seen the quick change (too surprising for me).

I'll report on whether I think this all works for me.

Probably worth noting that most of the main room lights in my house are already natural spectrum and mid-high luminosity so it's a little weird seeing something orange when everything else is already white.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

I am tempted by this, how does this work if you have no lights?

 

[Velaphor]

You can change the speed it changes at and also the intensity of the orange. I've made it very faint so i haven't noticed it change but i can tell that it's a lot easier on the eye.

 

[Spicypixel]

I have used this before and it does help you feel sleepy before going to bed, so its a plus.
You do get used to the difference in temperature, the only issue is once you're into it there is no way back for the most part. Turning the monitor back to stock colours causes you to feel like the sun is inside your eyeballs.
EDIT: just to explain why I went back was because 3dsmax decided that it hates it.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I am tempted by this, how does this work if you have no lights?

Really, it's light independent. I tend to leave just a side lamp on when I'm playing late at night. In those cases, having a lower screen temperature would likely be more beneficial.

 

[bacon]

I've just installed it on my laptop and it's quite good but it makes the TV look really blue/green in comparison.