Sentence examples for pencils of light from inspiring English sources

In the booth, large disclamp with perforations through which thin pencils of light came streaming.

For the first time the retina, or the sensitive receptor of the eye, was regarded as the place where "pencils of light" compose upside-down images.

In other crustaceans the transparent cones which are coated by pigment, and which properly act only by excluding lateral pencils of light, are convex at their upper ends and must act by convergence; and at their lower ends there seems to be an imperfect vitreous substance.

Some of us decorate our houses with strings of lights, outlining the house, drawing in the roofline, the eaves, the doors, and the windows with a pencil of light.

A pencil of light rays that is emitted from a world point and reflected on a curved mirror produces two line-shaped virtual images which are mutually-perpendicular and at different positions when the incident direction of a chief ray is oblique to the mirror's axis of rotation.

By Lynne McMahon The New Yorker, April 26 , 1993P. 76 The thinnest pencil beam of light slices View Article By Jia Tolentino By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By George Packer.

By Lynne McMahon The New Yorker, April 26 , 1993P. 76 The thinnest pencil beam of light slices View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick.

The effect is like expanding a researcher's field of vision from a pencil-thin beam of light trained mainly on the regions near coding sequences to a sweeping spotlight illuminating the contributions of distant genomic regions.

On September 8, Pencils of Promise is lighting the Empire State Building yellow, like a pencil, to celebrate International Literacy Day and raise awareness of the 250 million children who lack basic reading and writing skills.

But instead of pencils and light tables, visitors find experimental virtual reality editing equipment, location-scouting drones and digital projections that wrap around walls.

To give your sketch a good touch up, try adding thin streaks of light colored pencils in your drawing.