Sentences with phrase «optical effects of light»

Michael Kidner was described by American art historian and critic Irving Sandler as «arguably the first Op Artist in Britain», following his investigations of the optical effects of light, color and systemic structure during the 1960s.

Kidner (1917 - 2009) is known for his explorations of the optical effects of light and color and their fluctuations when set within the space of the canvas.

Teresita Fernández's work engages the surrounding architecture and the optical effects of light and color to create subtle, meticulous works of art that reference the landscape and natural phenomena.

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The gravitational pull of matter in the cluster bends and twists the light from more distant galaxies, producing a plethora of strange optical effects ranging from distorted arcs to multiple images of the same background object.

We observed a classical optical effect: the blue - shifting of light at a white - hole horizon.

Trapping light into a small volume is a useful way of amplifying optical effects.

The grating, which comprises a small modulation in the optical material properties, forms a bandgap for light, which strongly effects the propagation of light, in the same way that semiconductors control the flow of electrons.

«What this now means is that complicated effects like color correction, which in a conventional optical system would require light to pass through several thick lenses in sequence, can be achieved in one extremely thin, miniaturized device,» said principal investigator Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS.

These are materials made from arrays of electrically conducting components that interact with light so as to create exotic optical effects such as negative refractive index.

His theoretical research focuses on novel optical effects such as so - called transformation optics — bending light in curious ways with metamaterials, or assemblages of rods and rings smaller than a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation.

Since interacting light beams with different colours pass through a nonlinear optical material at different speeds, they can become «out of step» and the desired effect can be lost.

Due to the small extent of optical nonlinearity in naturally occurring materials, high light intensities and long propagation distances in nonlinear crystals are typically required to produce detectable nonlinear optical effects.

By studying the light - bending effects of galaxy clusters and combining the data with optical measurements, they have been able to «see» the invisible material and have begun to assemble accurate maps.

Physics In Vogue is a photography exhibition that aims to shed light on profound contemporary physics discoveries by combining fashion photography, laboratory grade optical effects and scientific accuracy to create visual representations of complex science.

Lights and shadows extend these configurations by offering visual effects so that the highly fragile works resemble optical illusions of falling perspectives.

Concerned with optical ambiguity and the phenomenology of perception, each cube was intended to be shown at a different elevation and with different lighting effects so as to always be experienced in a new way.

Additional rooms are dedicated to John Marin, one of the first Americans to embrace abstraction through color and line; the Washington Color School painters (Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Morris Louis), who focused on the expressive power and optical effects of color; and contemporary artists (Tayo Heuser, Jorge Pardo, Kate Shepherd), who engage the eye in the experience of color and light.

Hoferer makes drawings that create luminous and beguiling optical effects through the refraction of light on their surfaces.

Like actual vision, Quaytman's paintings have a blind spot, whether it be from a light source in the picture, an optical illusion, a trompe l'œil effect, the absence of color in a black and white photograph, or the picture in plan.

These works have a prismatic effect, both transmitting and refracting light, and thus capturing an optical sense of depth, space, and color.

When lit, Dan Flavin's works are neither exclusively objects, nor entirely optical phenomena, they engage by the immersive effect of light and colour.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.

To make bright images clearer, the EX2F also includes Dual Optical and Digital Image Stabilization (OIS and DIS) to minimize the effect of camera shake — especially useful in low - light situations.

But that small curvature is the key to a series of optical effects that result in significantly reducing interference from reflected ambient light by a large factor.»

Put that together and you get a very high level of detail, powerful optical zoom, a solid bokeh effect for blurred backgrounds, and great low - light performance.