Sentence examples for gradation of light from inspiring English sources

This law and his photometric work he published in his Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière (1729; Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light).

Thereafter, chiaroscuro became a primary technique for many painters, and by the late 17th century the term was routinely used to describe any painting, drawing, or print that depended for its effect on an extensive gradation of light and darkness.

Notions of intensity and gradation of light, together with notions of presence and self-manifestation, are thus central to Suhrawardi's metaphysics.

His immersive installations play on viewers' perception of subtle differences in the gradation of light, and several of his most intense works plunge visitors into what at first appears to be total darkness.

The significant increasing slope in the incidence of CMM with decreasing UV dose over time, especially from 1980 to 2000, reveals that the gradation of lighter skin color with increasing latitude in Europe is not a reasonable explanation because it remained fairly constant.

In Paradise, all he travels through is gradations of light, and he speeds through them effortlessly.

Break the rules: put clashing colors side by side, and do away with shadings and gradations of light and color.

One wonders how long Morris had to tarry to achieve such luminous gradations of light and atmosphere in these breathtaking pictures.

Here, exquisite gradations of light gray virtually compel the viewer to study every inch of this alien landscape and to marvel at the tiny resting figures of camels and their riders in a vast expanse of shifting sand.

But another crucial aspect of capturing a high-quality image has lagged far behind, and that is dynamic range, the gradations of light and dark a digital camera can capture so that details are not washed out by light or concealed by shadows.

Harding overreaches when she attempts to make Cave's experiences emblematic of humankind's predatory relationship with the natural world, but her accounts of Cave's daily struggle for survival (even inside his tent "everything that does not face towards the fire is frozen") are powerful, and she reveals myriad gradations of light and color in what first appears a blank and unchanging landscape.