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    natural illumination falloff) is not due to the blocking of light rays. The falloff is approximated by the cos4 or "cosine fourth" law of illumination fall...
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  • French Navy used during World War II. It was used on the large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) of the Le Fantasque and Mogador classes. The 50-caliber Mle...
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    Françoys. The manuscript BnF fr. 5594 is a masterpiece of manuscript illumination by Jean Colombe, containing 66 full-page miniatures. It was finished...
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    (three-point lighting) uses a key light, a fill light and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only a key light, optionally controlled...
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    advantage that the illumination can be clearly seen and assessed before exposure. Considerably more energy is required for constant illumination in comparison...
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    light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom. It provides illumination only from parts of the visible spectrum to which the photographic material...
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    Latécoère Naval underwater) for the anti-submarine role MASURCA (MArine SURface Contre-Avions i.e. Naval surface anti-aircraft) for the area and high-priority...
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    Latines. ISBN 978-2-7233-0035-3. Daddah, Mokhtar Ould (2003). La Mauritanie contre vents et marées (in French). Karthala Editions. ISBN 978-2-8111-3765-6....
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    the lower part of the piece are inscriptions in French and Dutch: 'Lutte contre le cancer' - 'Strijd tegen kanker'. The initials of the designer Iris Bruijns...
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    Faster shutter speeds are often better when there is significant ambient illumination, and flash is used to flash fill subjects that are backlit without motion...
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    knife edge, they use an illumination pattern of repeated edges with a focusing imaging system. The basic idea is that the illumination pattern is imaged onto...
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    face. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Backlighting. Chiaroscuro Contre-jour Sayer, Rob (25 April 2012). "Backlight – Why You Should Be Using Backlighting"...
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    it is often important to take into account the color temperature of illumination. A warmer (i.e., a lower color temperature) light is often used in public...
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    (tool, device) for casting shadows or silhouettes to produce patterned illumination. It is normally referred to as a cookie or sometimes as a kook or a coo-koo...
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    to human eyes. Photographs of dyes that fluoresce under ultraviolet illumination are examples of ultraviolet fluorescence photography. Light (visible...
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    route. This event gives place to other events in the city, like the illumination of the Capitole with the colors of the LGBT flag, or sometimes of the...
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    Vernacular Wedding Wildlife Techniques Afocal Bokeh Brenizer Burst mode Contre-jour ETTR Fill flash Fireworks Hand-colouring Harris shutter High-speed...
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    the French secret service, the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage in 1978 hired the French mercenary Bob Denard to invade the Comoros...
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    to light in the "red" range). In certain conditions of intermediate illumination, the rod response and a weak cone response can together result in color...
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    which was said to burn more consistently and completely so giving better illumination than round wire. It also had the benefit of being a simpler and cheaper...
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    ambient light during the day and uses battery-powered illumination for use at night. Electric illumination is activated automatically by a built-in photoresistor...
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    illumination system consisting of a video projector (allowing computational control of illumination) and a second microlens array in the illumination...
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    the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Contest of Laurens Pignon's "Contre le devineurs (1411)". Brill. Welch, Evelyn S. (1995). Art and Authority...
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    reflector factor is the ratio of the illumination provided by a lamp fitted within a reflector to the illumination provided without any reflector fitted...
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    that their method consists of two frames, the first shot under standard illumination with no infrared light and the second one using infrared light. Webster's...
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    idea that stimuli can be perceived as larger or smaller based on their illumination and surroundings. Delboeuf is well known for his work on this illusion...
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    Christianity. Leiden Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-39774-3. Irenaeus (2008). Contre les hérésies. 1,1: Introd., notes justificatives, tables. Sources chrétiennes...
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    major image quality compromises are made to remove the need for laser illumination to view the hologram. A computer-generated hologram is created by digitally...
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  • was an important centre of illumination of Carolingian manuscripts, producing some monuments of Carolingian book illumination such as the Drogo Sacramentary...
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    masks the sky", which has led him to create innovative new forms of illumination. In 2011, a reviewer in Le Figaro called him "a passionate fan of chiaroscuro"...
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