In the industrial age, the design of healthcare buildings has been dictated by the demands of hygiene and efficiency: hard, sterile surfaces; bright, white spaces; long corridors; artificial ventilation systems.
All the talk of darkness obscures what may come as an aesthetic surprise in "The Dark Knight": the creepy shadows and gothic Wayne Manor are gone, replaced by sleek towers, shiny surfaces, bright lighting and the vistas of a city with shoulders bigger than Batman's.
Described by Turner as "colorful" and "crisp" and by Torres as "cartoony" and "clean", Edge likened the game's aesthetic to Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series: "Every surface is bright and solid and shiny, every aspect impeccably presented".
Its surface is bright and heavily marked with deep, bowl-shaped impact craters.
The program's twinkling sentimentality is echoed in the music, with Mulcahy's warbling voice flitting along the surface of bright, feathery guitar pop.
Shot at night in Kona, Hawaii, and set to plangent music, it features Hannah Fraser, a dancer and mermaid model, who hovers beneath the ocean's surface amid bright underwater lights as six-foot manta rays glide past like ghosts.
That would accelerate the warming of the planet, given that dark solar-energy-absorbing ocean water would replace a surface of bright white ice, which reflects sunlight back into space.
The surface appears bright, whereas the defect features appear darker.
The as-grown samples have a surface with bright metallic luster and are soft and fragile.
When a bubble collapses, theory predicts that the gas inside should be squeezed so tightly that it becomes as hot as the surface of bright stars.
