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  2. Rayleigh sky model - Wikipedia

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    It is approximately 80%, which is a realistic maximum for the clear Rayleigh sky during day time. The video thus begins when the sun is slightly above the horizon and at an azimuth of 120°. The sky is highly polarized in the effective North-Zenith-South plane. This is slightly offset because the sun's azimuth is not due East.

  3. Atmospheric optics - Wikipedia

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    The color of light from the sky is a result of Rayleigh scattering of sunlight, which results in a perceived blue color. On a sunny day, Rayleigh scattering gives the sky a blue gradient, darkest around the zenith and brightest near the horizon.

  4. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    [3] [10]: 3:57 "I don't think the engineers or anybody at Microsoft had any idea it would have the success it had," he said. [10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27]

  5. Rayleigh scattering - Wikipedia

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    Rayleigh scattering causes the blue color of the daytime sky and the reddening of the Sun at sunset. Rayleigh scattering (/ ˈ r eɪ l i / RAY-lee) is the scattering or deflection of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles with a size much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.

  6. Diffuse sky radiation - Wikipedia

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    The blue sky spectrum contains light at all visible wavelengths with a broad maximum around 450–485 nm, the wavelengths of the color blue. Diffuse sky radiation is solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or particulates in the atmosphere.

  7. Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh - Wikipedia

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    Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh FRS [1] (28 August 1875 – 13 December 1947) was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen" and was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky.

  8. Airy disk - Wikipedia

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    The Rayleigh criterion for barely resolving two objects that are point sources of light, such as stars seen through a telescope, is that the center of the Airy disk for the first object occurs at the first minimum of the Airy disk of the second. This means that the angular resolution of a diffraction-limited system is given by the same formulae.

  9. Horizon (video game series) - Wikipedia

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    The Horizon universe was adapted into a comic book in 2020, with the release of Horizon Zero Dawn: The Sunhawk. [11] The comic book bridges the gap between Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. A second comic set during the events of the first game, called Horizon Zero Dawn: Liberation, was released in 2021. [12]