Color Analysis

OK, Totally the wrong place to ask this, my bad. Looking more for a "Where Should I post" Also, knowing the wealth of experience in this forum thought I might push my luck;

We are doing a series of talks on theater lighting to Students in our smaller, Pavilion theatre. One of the subjects will be the spectral emissions produced by legacy (Tungsten) and LED lights, both simple RGB and RGBWA.
What I would like to be able to do is shine a lamp unto a white surface to demonstrate the effects of colored gels and for the LEDs mixtures of RG&B. What would be very effective would be to see a visible spectrum scan that would change as, say the RG&B percentages were altered in the mix.
I have seen some very expensive spectrum analyzers on the market but was wondering if there wasn't anything (software based and using a tablet's camera perhaps) that was around for a whole lot less. There are of course a huge number for the audio frequencies but I would have thought lighting engineers/techs/designers would like a way to assess a Lamp. GEL, LEDs color composition. Ideas? 
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  • If you happen to have a mac then you can do something quick and simple using the camera and the Digital colour meter built in app.

    Normally you use that app for reading the RGB values of the screen when you want to match a colour when designing something.

    But if you fire up any app that display what the camera is seeing eg facetime and then move the colour meter over it you will see the RGB values from the image.

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