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  2. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent lamps come in many shapes and sizes. [50] Many compact fluorescent lamps integrate the auxiliary electronics into the base of the lamp, allowing them to fit into a regular light bulb socket. In US residences, fluorescent lamps are mostly found in kitchens, basements, or garages. Schools and businesses find the cost savings of ...

  3. Computer graphics lighting - Wikipedia

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    Computer graphics lighting is the collection of techniques used to simulate light in computer graphics scenes. While lighting techniques offer flexibility in the level of detail and functionality available, they also operate at different levels of computational demand and complexity.

  4. Compact fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    Integrated lamps combine the tube and ballast in a single unit. These lamps allow consumers to replace incandescent lamps easily with CFLs. Integrated CFLs work well in many standard incandescent light fixtures, reducing the cost of converting to fluorescent. 3-way lamps and dimmable models with standard bases are available.

  5. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    A liquid-crystal display (LCD) in a smartphone Layers of a color TFT LCD. 1: Glass plates. 2+3: Horizontal and vertical polarizers. 4: RGB color mask. 5+6: Horizontal and vertical command lines. 7: polymer layer. 8: spacers. 9: thin film transistors. 10: front electrode. 11: rear electrode.

  6. Backlight - Wikipedia

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    Typical sources of light for backlights include light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs). Simple types of LCDs such as those used in pocket calculators are built without an internal light source, requiring external light sources to convey the display image to the user. Most LCD screens, however, are built with an ...

  7. Electric light - Wikipedia

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    An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light.It is the most common form of artificial lighting.Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass, or plastic which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture, which is often called a "lamp" as well.

  8. Rendering (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    This type of illumination is called indirect light, environment lighting, or diffuse lighting, and the problem of rendering it realistically is called global illumination. Rasterization and basic forms of ray tracing (other than distribution ray tracing and path tracing) can only roughly approximate indirect light, e.g. by adding a uniform ...

  9. Fluorescence - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent lighting is more energy-efficient than incandescent lighting elements. However, the uneven spectrum of traditional fluorescent lamps may cause certain colors to appear different from when illuminated by incandescent light or daylight. The mercury vapor emission spectrum is dominated by a short-wave UV line at 254 nm (which provides ...