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2. Daylighting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Often, clerestory windows also shine onto interior wall surfaces painted white or another light color. These walls are placed so as to reflect indirect light to interior areas where it is needed. This method has the advantage of reducing the directionality of light to make it softer and more diffuse, reducing shadows.

3. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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   Cove light – indirect lighting recessed into the ceiling in a long box against a wall. Troffer – recessed fluorescent light fixtures, usually rectangular in shape to fit into a drop ceiling grid. Chandeliers in the Bibliothèque Mazarine (Paris) Surface-mounted light – the finished housing is exposed, not flush with the surface.

4. Lighting - Wikipedia

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   While indirect lighting can create a diffused and shadow free light effect it can be regarded as an uneconomical lighting principle. [12] [13] Front lighting is also quite common, but tends to make the subject look flat as its casts almost no visible shadows. Lighting from the side is the less common, as it tends to produce glare near eye level.

5. Cove lighting - Wikipedia

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   Cove lighting is a form of indirect lighting built into ledges, recesses, or valances in a ceiling or high on the walls of a room. It directs light up towards the ceiling and down adjacent walls. [1] It may be used as primary lighting, or for aesthetic accent, especially to highlight decorative ceilings.

6. Sconce (light fixture) - Wikipedia

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   A sconce or wall light is a decorative light fixture that is mounted to a wall. [1] The sconce is a very old form of fixture, historically used with candles and oil lamps . They can provide general room lighting, and are common in hallways and corridors, but they may be mostly decorative. [ 1 ]

7. Wallwasher - Wikipedia

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   The illumination requires asymmetric lighting fixtures, which, in a number of 3 or more in a line, can produce evenly illuminated walls. It is a technique used mainly by lighting designers to create lighter spaces, or make rooms seem brighter or higher, similar to the "horizon" technique used in theatre lighting .