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Bright Shiny Morning is a novel written by James Frey, published in 2008.Set in Los Angeles, it follows the lives of several characters: a married couple, both celebrities, named Amberton and Casey; a young couple, Maddie and Dylan; a Mexican-American maid named Esperanza; a homeless man of Venice named Old Man Joe.
Shiny may refer to gloss (optics), ... typically because very clean or polished. synonyms: glossy, glassy, bright, polished, gleaming antonyms: matte
In textiles, lustre or luster is a physical property that makes them appear bright, glossy, and shiny. The amount of light reflected from the surface of a fiber is referred to as its luster. The level of luster is determined by how light reflects off the surface. For example, round surfaced fiber reflects more light and appears shinier than ...
This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the surface angle to the light source. In addition, there is no mechanism for showing metallic or fluorescent colors on a computer without resorting to rendering software which simulates the action of light on a shiny ...
Round, flat sequins A close-up of a gold sequin-covered shoe.. A sequin (/ ˈ s iː k w ɪ n /) is a small, typically shiny, generally disk-shaped ornament.. Sequins are also referred to as paillettes, spangles, or diamanté (also spelled diamante).
Decreasing brightness with depth (underwater photo as example) Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to be radiating or reflecting light . [ 1 ] In other words, brightness is the perception elicited by the luminance of a visual target.
The word iridescence is derived in part from the Greek word ἶρις îris (gen. ἴριδος íridos), meaning rainbow, and is combined with the Latin suffix -escent, meaning "having a tendency toward". [1] Iris in turn derives from the goddess Iris of Greek mythology, who is the personification of the rainbow and acted as a messenger of the ...
An example of photo-text installation, in which a series of black and white photographs are shown alongside six engraved text plaques. Photo-text , also written as photo/text , is a hybrid form of artistic expression that combines photography and textual elements to convey a message or create a narrative.