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  2. Volumetric lighting - Wikipedia

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    Examples of volumetric lighting are seeing sunbeams shining through a window and seeing sunbeams radiating when the Sun is below the horizon, also known as crepuscular rays. The term seems to have been introduced from cinematography and is now widely applied to 3D modeling and rendering , especially in the development of 3D video games .

  3. Sun Ray - Wikipedia

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    The Sun Ray is a stateless thin client computer (and associated software) aimed at corporate environments, that was originally introduced by Sun Microsystems in September 1999 and discontinued by Oracle Corporation in 2014. [1]

  4. Sunbeam - Wikipedia

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    Backstays of the sun, [9] a nautical term, from the fact that backstays that brace the mast of a sailing ship converge in a similar way; Buddha rays [2] God rays, used by some members of the computer graphics industry [10] Jacob's Ladder [2] Light shafts, sometimes used in the computer graphics industry, such as the game engine Unreal Engine [11]

  5. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  6. Crepuscular rays - Wikipedia

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    Crepuscular rays are noticeable when the contrast between light and dark is most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum, meaning "twilight". [2] Crepuscular rays usually appear orange because the path through the atmosphere at dawn and dusk passes through up to 40 times as much air as rays from a high Sun at noon.

  7. Sunlight - Wikipedia

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    Extreme UV and X-rays are produced (left of wavelength range) but comprise very small amounts of the Sun's total output power (area under the curve). Although the solar corona is a source of extreme ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, these rays make up only a very small amount of the power output of the Sun (see spectrum at right).

  8. Sun Ray (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sun Ray is a thin-client workstation computer. Sun Ray or Sunray may also refer to: Natural world. Sunbeam, a beam of sunlight; A plant of genus Enceliopsis;

  9. Solar symbol - Wikipedia

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    The disk with a ray as a symbol for the Sun in late Classical (4th c.) and medieval Byzantine (11th c.) mss [3] In the Greek and European world, until approximately the 16th century, the astrological symbol for the Sun was a disk with a single ray, ( U+1F71A ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR GOLD ).