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  2. Volumetric lighting - Wikipedia

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    In volumetric lighting, the light cone emitted by a light source is modeled as a transparent object and considered as a container of a "volume". As a result, light has the capability to give the effect of passing through an actual three-dimensional aerosol (e.g. fog, dust, smoke, or steam) that is inside its volume, just like in the real world.

  3. Optical window - Wikipedia

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    Rough plot of Earth's atmospheric transmittance (or opacity) to various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light.. The optical window is the portion of the optical spectrum that is not blocked by the Earth's atmosphere.

  4. Photosphere - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is composed primarily of the chemical elements hydrogen and helium; they account for 74.9% and 23.8%, respectively, of the mass of the Sun in the photosphere.All heavier elements, colloquially called metals in stellar astronomy, account for less than 2% of the mass, with oxygen (roughly 1% of the Sun's mass), carbon (0.3%), neon (0.2%), and iron (0.2%) being the most abundant.

  5. Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    A refraction ray traveling through transparent material works similarly, with the addition that a refractive ray could be entering or exiting a material. Turner Whitted extended the mathematical logic for rays passing through a transparent solid to include the effects of refraction.

  6. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Closed loop systems track the sun by relying on a set of lens or sensors with a limited field of view, directed at the sun, and are fully illuminated by sunlight at all times. As the sun moves, it begins to shade one or more sensors, which the system detect and activates motors or actuators to move the device back into a position where all ...

  7. Physically based rendering - Wikipedia

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    Bricks rendered using PBR. Even though this is a rough, opaque surface, more than just diffuse light is reflected from the brighter side of the material, creating small highlights, because "everything is shiny" in the physically-based rendering model of the real world.

  8. High-dynamic-range rendering - Wikipedia

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    Another aspect of HDR rendering is the addition of perceptual cues which increase apparent brightness. HDR rendering also affects how light is preserved in optical phenomena such as reflections and refractions, as well as transparent materials such as glass. In LDR rendering, very bright light sources in a scene (such as the sun) are capped at 1.0.

  9. 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]