light source
List of: Glossary Items
Subjects: Lights and Shadows
Contents: Glossary

A light source is a model of some source of light radiation used by the rendering library. Light sources only approximate types of lights found in the real world. The effect of a light on a surface depends upon the reflectance model associated with the surface.
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