Sentences with phrase «seen against a light background»

This illusion, known as the simultaneous contrast illusion, illustrates how your eyes perceive gray to be darker and richer when seen against a lighter background (on the right side), but more washed out when seen against a dark background (on the left side).

Even though the bar running through the middle is the same color from end to end, it looks much darker when seen against a light background.

Not exact matches

The repeating pattern of high contrast seen in clusters of holes, for example, is similar to the pattern on the skin of many snakes and the pattern made by a spider's dark legs against a lighter background.

The map was created by using faint background galaxies as light sources, against which gas could be seen by the characteristic absorption features of hydrogen.

White subtitles are difficult to read against light background, but that won't be a problem for Americans who will see the remake with Vince Vaughn scheduled to open October 4th with Ken Scott against at the helm.

In Hibba I we see the bold contour of Hibba's dignified profile against a background of alabastrine white whose light infuses the composition with warm energy.

The bringing to light of a processual artistic activity, such as Morris called for in his theoretical texts Notes on Sculpture, Part 1 - 4 (1966 - 69) and Anti-Form (1968), likewise addresses the social context of production and labor, a perspective which is also to be seen against the background of the institutional criticism of Concept Art as well as the social expectations during the 1970s with regard to art production.

«Allowing light to pass through the dewlap makes the colors of the dewlap much easier to detect and to distinguish against other objects in the background, which means the signal is easier to see by potential mates and rivals,» explained Leal.