Sentence examples for reception of light from inspiring English sources

For information about the reception of light by the retina of the eye and the interpretation of images by the brain, see eye, human.

In particular, Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen), in Kitab al-manazir (c. 1038; "Optics"), correctly attributed vision to the passive reception of light rays reflected from objects rather than an active emanation of light rays from the eyes.

Alberti advised using shades of color, according to their "reception of light," to give shape to figures, though when his theories were strictly applied, as by Veneziano, they led to a static, decorative effect.

Setting out the reasons for the fall, Sontag mentioned the consumption of TV-size images at home replacing the awed reception of light by "kidnapped" strangers in darkened theatres; the catastrophic rise in movie-production costs in the nineteen-eighties; the tipping of the old balance between art and commerce "decisively in favor of cinema as an industry".

Everyone has bad experiences in their lives, but when we identify with those past experiences we negate our reception of light.

The function of eyespots in dinoflagellates and other algal lineages has generally been presumed to be the reception of light stimuli and facilitation of phototactic responses, supported by the location of most eyespots close to the flagellar base (Dodge and Crawford 1969).

While the well characterized photoreceptors BLR1 and BLR2 (putatively as BLR1 BLR2 photoreceptor-complex) are predicted to mediate the reception of the light signal, this study reveals that ENVOY is involved in the conditional adaptation to light, because lack of functional ENVOY does not result in blindness but leads to an altered gene expression pattern of light-regulated genes.

The connection's opening time, the time interval between two messages (jitter), and the time between the production and reception of a light measurement (including the transmission time and the middleware processing time) are collected.

These findings are only special examples, which highlight the significance of reception of the light signal for fungi.

Linda Morfoot, 64, living in Long Beach, California, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 21 and was almost completely blind by the time she was 50, with only a small amount of light reception in her left eye.

Although it shows some influence from Ptolemy's 2nd century ad Optics, it contains the correct model of vision: the passive reception by the eyes of light rays reflected from objects, not an active emanation of light rays from the eyes.