Sentences with phrase «certain kinds of light»

The project, which invites an investigation of solar and alternative energy, uses a small and inexpensive robotic bug to let students see, hands - on, how a solar panel works to convert certain kinds of light energy to electrical energy.

Many researchers also postulate that exposure to certain kinds of light, particularly indoor versus outdoor light, may be responsible for the uptick in myopia.

It works by tagging the molecules with dyes that glow under certain kinds of light — the same principle behind so - called «black light» images.

Painters will tell you that New York has a certain kind of light, and it's because of the light reflected off the water.

Kerlin Gallery artists Mark Garry, Elizabeth Magill and Paul Winstanley are included in a major new exhibition at Towner Art Gallery, A Certain Kind Of Light.

A Certain Kind Of Light explores how artists have responded to light, its materiality, transience and effect over six decades.

A Certain Kind of Light @ Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne A small but excellent group show of light art.

For further information about the works in A Certain Kind of Light, download the exhibition labels here.

Roger Ackling, installation view, A Certain Kind of Light, 2017.

A Certain Kind of Light explores how artists have responded to light, its materiality, transience and effect.

Courtesy of the Arts Council Collection.A Certain Kind of Light, 2017.

Sometimes I perceived a certain kind of light inside the tree that I tried to release.

Not exact matches

The main street looks like a set from a Hallmark film — worn storefronts, light posts wearing seasonal decorations and a certain kind of bustle most cities never experience.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

It was only intended to show that certain concepts of the scholastic philosophy of nature, such as eductio a potentia materiae, if they are thought out without prejudice, compel us to think on lines which are perhaps of a kind to throw light on the real problem that concerns us here.

• that liking a certain kind of music for light entertainment is the same as liking that music for all the purposes of worship

Pope Francis, through his teaching on priestly witness, challenges a certain kind of conservative Christian to realize his duty to be a light in the world.

Each kind of stroller: travel system, light weight, and full size stroller should meet a certain level of performance to accommodate the needs for which you are buying.

Those effects will likely differ depending on the kind of plastic, which varies depending on its starting polymer and the additives used to impart certain qualities such as flexibility, sturdiness or durability under ultraviolet light.

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

These qualities alone would make an impressive fabric, but Garb and Hayashi speculate that egg cases may even block ultraviolet light and, unlike certain kinds of spider silk, resist shrinkage.

Not only that, but certain parts of the shrimps» bodies can reflect the same kind of light, creating a signal only other mantis shrimp can see.

Under certain circumstances, objects illuminated by some kinds of fluorescent lights will appear to rotate backwards to the naked eye.

It's that same kind of morning as well — warm and cool, four - dimensionally blue, girded with arches of towering light — the kind of perfect fall morning that New Yorkers of a certain generation will always associate with disbelief and poor cell phone reception and showstopping acts of mass murder.

Planetary atmospheres can block certain wavelengths of light, depending on what kind of chemicals they contain, so the fact that one wavelength of infrared radiation is blocked while another passes through can help astronomers understand that there's not only an atmosphere there, but also provide clues as to what it's made of.

Secondly, special denim has been used in the manufacturing of this kind of skinny jeans which reflects certain angles of light, thus exuding the feel of velvet.

There's something about Fanning's face — particularly her slim, upward - sloping nose and round, pronounced cheekbones — that in a certain light looks very like a skull, and Refn and his cinematographer Natasha Braier eagerly capitalise on that, giving her the kind of «totem - like countenance» that used to bring Roland Barthes out in a nervous sweat.

A story that is highly personal to the director, who himself grew up in a collective - living environment, we're certain that the unusual backdrop will prove fertile ground for the kind of ideological, social and interpersonal drama (with lighter moments too) that Vinterberg excels in.

I have a hunch, though, that some kind of screening process will evolve among book reviewers, perhaps around some version of nepotism / networking — either where outlets within certain «elite» lit communities will begin reviewing talented self - published people who are also connected with the same communities — or sufficient numbers of intrepid bloggers will have the tenacity to weed through the jungle and sniff out the good stuff to review, creating a critical mass of well - reviewed, non-tradionally published authors.

With this monopoly or near - monopoly they can dictate terms to publishers or dictate what gets published: Amazon is great at selling certain kinds of books but not others (trade paperbacks, lit fiction that needs «discovery»; mid list from writers who lack a social media or publicity «platform»), and the more Amazon dominates the market, the less viable it becomes to publish books in those categories.

I mean a huge example would be Driveclub game got a huge graphical upgrade, everything from higher textures to better normal maps, global illumination, advanced weather systems, drip maps, reflections shadows and improved lighting but most gamers didn't notice it, maybe cause a lot of gamers think crushed blacks and or certain lighting affects look better then others kind of like console gamers who claim they cant see the difference in 30 and 60 fps or even weird cases of gamers saying 120 fps is not noticeable or even worse then 60 fps.

The theme had not so many meanings and most of the teams saw some kind of Contrast (Mountain / Hole, Light / Dark, etc.) and also a certain Sermon (Life is about taking risks in order to fulfill certain dreams).

So that's where you kind of get like these directional shadows as well when we have strong light coming from a certain direction.

It's an apt anecdote in light of David's present approach to his work: a narrowing of focus to sculpture or at least the transition from drawing to sculpture, a certain modesty of scale that means many of his new works could be held in the hand and, when grouped together, compose on their plinths a kind of community, hovering at the same level while they address us.

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He saw the work of Antoni Gaudí, who employed broken crockery in his mosaics: this medium, Schnabel realised, «had a certain kind of reflective quality and density of colour and light that I felt hadn't really been used in painting, that was sort of off the ground and had a... pictorial possibility, besides the psychological one» (J. Schnabel, quoted in C. Ratcliff, «Julian Schnabel: New Again», Interview Magazine, January 2016).

If you take the view that any kind of deception or unlawful activity is never justified in pursut of the wider public good then you're perfecty entitled to take that view but you have to then accept that certain information which should come to light will not do so, and you have to be absolutely consistent, which means condemning the release of the climategate emails.