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Lighting Design Toolkit Index and Glossary.

The majority of the following list can be found at http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/glossary/ and is used with the kind permission of Georg Mischler at Schorsch.com , who is also the creator of Rayfront

 

A

absorptance
absorption
absorption coefficient
accommodation
achromatic
adaptation
adaptive colour shift
albedo
aliasing
altitude
ambient light
animation
animation path
antialiasing
antimatter
aperture

atmospheric transmissivity

 

B

beam angle
beam lumens
blinding glare
bounce light
brightness
bubble

 

C

candela
candela per square foot
candela per square inch
candle
candlepower
chroma

chromatic adaptation
clear sky
cloudy sky
colour rendering index
CRI
CCT
colour calibration
colour temperature
cone
constructive solid geometry
contrast
cosine law
CSG
cup
cylinder

 

D

dark adaptation
daylight
daylight factor
daylighting
diffuse reflectance
direct glare
direct lighting
direct/indirect lighting
disability glare
discomfort glare
distributed raytracing

 

E

electrical lighting
etendue
exitance
see luminous exitance and radiant exitance
exposure
extinction coefficient

 

F

field angle
foot-candle
foot-lambert

 

G

gamma
gamma correction
general colour rendering index
glare
ground light

 

H

hefner candle
hefner unit
hot spot

 

I

illuminance
illumination
image filtering
indirect lighting
intensity
see luminous intensity and radiant intensity
irradiance

 

J

jittered sampling

 

K

Kelvin

 

L

lambert
lambertian surface
Lambert's cosine law
light
light adaptation
lighting design
lumberg
lumen
luminance
luminance contrast
luminous
luminous emittance
luminous energy
luminous exitance
luminous flux
luminous flux density
luminous intensity
luminous power
lux

 

M

Macbeth Colour-checker chart
material
matte
mirror angle
mist
mixture
modifier

 

N

nit
normal vector

 

O

overcast sky

 

P

participating medium
partly cloudy sky
pattern
penumbra
perception
phot
photometric brightness
photometry
polar angle
polygon

 

Q

R

radiance
radiance software
radiant emittance
radiant energy
radiant exitance
radiant flux
radiant flux density
radiant intensity
radiant power
radiometry
radiosity
radiosity method
raytracing
reflectance
reflected glare
right hand rule
ring

 

S

scattering coefficient
sensation
sky light
solar altitude
solid angle
solid modelling

source
specular
sphere
steradian
stilb
sunlight
sunny sky
surface
surface modelling
surface normal

 

T

Talbot
texture
transient adaptation
transient adaptation factor
transmission coefficient
transmission factor
transmissivity
transmittance

tube

 

U

UCS
umbra

 

V

veiling reflection
violle

 

W

walk-through animation
workplane

 

X

Y

Z