Illumination in a sentence as a noun

Here, we are dealing with illumination directly 2 inch in front of my eye.

For a bit of background: The article talks a lot about global illumination.

Screen illumination is part of the THX TAP spec, I wonder if any of the AMC THX theaters are out of spec.

With local illumination, for each pixel, you figure out what object you're looking at, and where on that object.

Most energy consumption in the US goes towards heating and cooling, not illumination.

In any case, running global illumination often causes a major increase in rendering time.

In global illumination there are lighting interactions between objects in the scene, but not between pixels.

I appreciate the clear description of local vs global illumination.

This is something that is often overlooked in any analysis of global vs. local illumination.

It seems that it's more like they went from a local "illumination" technique to a full global "illumination" technique to take into account secondary bounces.

In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.

Even given the increased efficiency of LEDs, the illumination provided by one of these "bottle lights" is still about 100x greater, it's basically free, and it doesn't require you to tend to it every 15 - 30 minutes.

And the most important aspect is that instead of deterministically calculating everything in a specific way it uses a monte-carlo method of statistically sampling different "paths" then using the data to estimate the resulting illumination/image rendering.

Illumination definitions

noun

a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination; "follow God's light"

See also: light

noun

the degree of visibility of your environment

noun

an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"

See also: clarification elucidation

noun

the luminous flux incident on a unit area

See also: illuminance

noun

painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

See also: miniature