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Examples
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Look at the overexposed windowframes, colourtemperature completely of compared to "lightsource", also note the soft shadows from the pillows and the soft white light falling on the pillows...
The Sunset: Tatooine's Best Restaurant Cosmo7 2009
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Starting from their student biogas project, DIY cowshit-to-fuel generators, they first ran into IP trouble with their biogas PH5 lamp, a sustainable lightsource in the shape of a 1950s Scandinavian design classic by Poul Henningsen.
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Made of silicon rubber cables dangling -- Cousin-It-like -- from a steel rod, the suspended lamp invites consumers to give their lightsource, well, a haircut.
Dorothy Spears: TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dorothy Spears 2010
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Starting from their student biogas project, DIY cowshit-to-fuel generators, they first ran into IP trouble with their biogas PH5 lamp, a sustainable lightsource in the shape of a 1950s Scandinavian design classic by Poul Henningsen.
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Even if the surface was totally smooth and you avoided the reflcting angle with regard to the sun, you'd still have the sky as a reflective secondary lightsource eveywhere and that's why Pyle states sunlight and not just light - the sun is not the important part, it's the sky's reflection that makes the statement true in *most* circumstances
Pyle on Light and Shadow James Gurney 2009
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In sunlight you get the whole sky as a secondary lightsource, floding your shadows from every angle, while lamplight will only flood shadows with reflection from nearby objects.
Pyle on Light and Shadow James Gurney 2009
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I understand that redshift is proportional to distance, so that the further away a lightsource is, the faster it appears to recede.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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Just lose your focus and imagine that the lightsource is behind her and makes a shadow to make her go counter-clockwise.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Right brain vs. Left brain 2007
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I understand that redshift is proportional to distance, so that the further away a lightsource is, the faster it appears to recede.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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At first, I thought this design used individual LEDs, but it appears that each tube has a single lightsource at the top.
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