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  2. Glare (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Glare can be generally divided into two types, discomfort glare and disability glare. [1] Discomfort glare is a psychological sensation caused by high brightness (or brightness contrast) within the field of view, which does not necessarily impair vision. [2]

  3. Glaring - Wikipedia

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    A glare may be induced by anger or frustration. Visually, a glaring person tends to have their eyes fixed and heavily focused on a subject. This can sometimes be considered synonymous to staring but, in most of the cases, staring is caused due to curiosity and lasts only for a short duration, whereas glaring is caused due to contempt and lasts ...

  4. Lens flare - Wikipedia

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    Lens flare on Borobudur stairs to enhance the sense of ascending. A lens flare is often deliberately used to invoke a sense of drama. A lens flare is also useful when added to an artificial or modified image composition because it adds a sense of realism, implying that the image is an un-edited original photograph of a "real life" scene.

  5. Anti-reflective coating - Wikipedia

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    Uncoated glasses lens (top) versus lens with anti-reflective coating. The reflection from the coated lens is tinted because the coating works better at some wavelengths than others. An antireflective , antiglare or anti-reflection ( AR ) coating is a type of optical coating applied to the surface of lenses , other optical elements, and ...

  6. Specular reflection - Wikipedia

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    Coplanar condition of specular reflection, in which = Reflections on still water are an example of specular reflection.. Specular reflection, or regular reflection, is the mirror-like reflection of waves, such as light, from a surface.

  7. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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    Sunglasses can improve visual comfort and visual clarity by protecting the eye from glare. [24] The lenses of polarized sunglasses reduce glare reflected at some angles off shiny non-metallic surfaces, such as water. They allow wearers to see into water when only surface glare would otherwise be seen, and eliminate glare from a road surface ...

  8. Halo (optical phenomenon) - Wikipedia

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    The term is related to the Breton word kog-heol (sun cock) which has the same meaning. [5] In Nepal , the halo round the sun is called Indrasabha with a connotation of the assembly court of Lord Indra – the Hindu god of lightning, thunder, and rain.

  9. Pattern glare - Wikipedia

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    Pattern glare is a form of visual discomfort [1] that arises from viewing repetitively striped patterns, such as those of op art. Instead of the patterns' appearing ...