A particular type of shadow show that was conceived in terms of film is the silhouette films first made by the German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger in the 1920s; for these films, the screen was placed horizontally, like a tabletop, a light was placed beneath it, the camera was above it, looking downward, and the figures were moved by hand on the screen, being photographed by the stop-action technique.
In one type of shadow play having a special religious significance, the puppets perform before a screen during the daytime, and the puppeteer is seen in his role as a Brahman priest, bare to the waist.
One type of shadow clock consisted of a long stem with five variable marks and an elevated crossbar which cast a shadow over those marks.
This type of shadow is often called an achromatic shadow [25].
Karagöz is the most frequently performed but not the sole type of shadow play in Muslim countries.
The first type of shadow detection method, feature-based method, uses the intensity values, chromaticity information, or geometric characteristics to detect the shadows.
As shown by experimental results, our two-stage shadow detector can accurately model and reliably detect shadows, no matter what the illumination condition, geometry or texture of the background, and orientation or type of shadow are.
The second type of shadow detection method, model-based method, needs some prior knowledge about the scene, such as sun altitude [12], sun angle [13], or NDVI index [14].
Gillespie started off by arguing that the same type of shadow politics takes place on both sides of the aisle.
