The Samsung projector casts 50 lumens, a small amount of light but enough to work effectively at short ranges.
The roof is black, like an eternal night, though a small amount of light falls from a single diagonal opening.
On the back wall of the eye, the tapetum lucidum reflects incoming light, thus utilizing the small amount of light available at night to best advantage.
Balagovindan also spoke with me, and he recalled his first glimpse of the treasure: "When they removed the granite stone, it was almost perfectly dark, except for a small amount of light coming in through the doorway behind us.
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.
One e-mail message shed a small amount of light on the suicide of Gary Berwick, a former top aide to the acting State Police superintendent who stepped down as the controversy intensified.
Shumin Xiao and colleagues at the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., incorporated material that amplified light into a metamaterial to produce an optical NIM that absorbed only a small amount of light.
There is a small amount of light industry tobacco, beverages, canning but the main sources of income are the provisioning of ships and military personnel, tourism, and the re-export trade.
Avoiding the need to convert from light to electricity at any point in the journey, and using technologies that can squeeze an enormous amount of data into a relatively small amount of light, should create a "bandwidth paradise", according to the gurus of photonics.
