Lecture 4: Lighting

Natural Light is light that enters from the sun.

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Task lighting increases illuminance to better accomplish a specific activity.

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Accent Lighting is lighting that highlights an area or feature of a room

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Ambient Lighting is light that comes in from all directions.

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Grazing lights are located close to the lit surface that strengthen highlights and shadows and emphasize surface textures.

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Permeter Lighting are lights that are clear globe lights strung around the perimeter of the tent. They offer additional light and definition to your space.

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Up Lighting are lights that are placed above ground.

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Cove Lighting are indirect lighting built into ledges, recesses, or valences in a ceiling or high on the walls of a room. It directs light up towards the ceiling and down adjacent walls

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Recessed Lighting are light fixture that is installed into a hollow opening in a ceiling

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Drop Lights are hung from the ceiling of a space.

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Wall Washing is an effect which could be easily achieved with recess lighting. Wall washing is simply that, it bathes the wall in a soft light, to highlight the region

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Sconce -is a type of light fixture affixed to a wall in such a way that it uses only the wall for support, and the light is usually directed upwards.

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2x2 fixture are a type of light that is used to illuminate a room.

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incandescent bulb creates light when heated. A light bulb that creates light when heat passes through a filament

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fluorescent light usually tubular electric lamp having a coating of fluorescent material on its inner surface and containing mercury vapor and it provides ultraviolet light which causes the material to emit visible light.

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creative lighting 1 is light that is seen or illuminate an object that is created artistically.

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creative lighting 2 back frame of this bed is illuminated by light that is seen through a creative décor.

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