The SynthiColor™ Software package equips the RS-5B spectrally programmable light source with easy-to-use interactive programmability and control. SynthiColor brings together all the incredible spectral and colorimetric capabilities of the RS-5B light source into a single, fully interactive, Windows application. User-defined spectrums, colors, and illuminants can be interactively created using the SynthiColor software in conjunction with an RS-5B digital light source.

SynthiColor communicates directly with any RS-5B source connected to the serial port of a host PC. SynthiColor provides PC-based spectral synthesis, data handling and storage, spectral and colorimetric metrics, as well as high speed matrix optimization routines — and all in a single 'point and click' Windows application which is both real-time and interactive.

Spectrums can be created by the user either through simple Windows slider controls, or by importing user-defined spectral data. Spectrums can be saved, recalled, displayed, and quantified with regard to their spectral and colorimetric characteristics. Individual spectral profiles can be imported, matched, and displayed using adjustable matching and illuminant criteria; and can even conserve 'whiteness' and 'lightness' references across different spectral profiles (L*a*b* color space).

SynthiColor and an RS-5B source combine to form an integrated spectral programming and generation system. This gives the camera or imager systems designer unparalleled depth and versatility with which to quantify the performance and quality of products.
A comprehensive range of highly accurate electro-optical measurements can be performed in just a matter of minutes.