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3Dsolar software

absorptance
absorption
absorption coefficient
accommodation
adaptation
adaptative color shift
afterimage
aftersensation
albedo
aliasing
altitude
animation
animation path
antialiasing
aperture
apostilb
antimatter
atmospheric transmissivity

beam angle
beam axis
beam lumens
blinding glare
blondel
brightness
bubble

candela
candela per square foot
candela per square inch
candle
candlepower
chromatic adaptation
clear sky
cloudy sky
color rendering index
CRI
CCT
color temperature
cone
contrast
cosine law
cup
cylinder

dark adaptation
daylight
daylight factor
daylighting
diffuse reflectance
direct glare
direct lighting
direct/indirect lighting
disability glare
discomfort glare
distributed raytracing

electrical lighting
etendue
exitance see luminous exitance and radiant exitance
exposure
extinction coefficient

field angle
footcandle
footlambert

gamma
gamma correction
general color rendering index
glare
ground light

hefner candle
hefner unit
hot spot

illuminance
illumination
image filtering
indirect lighting
intensity see luminous intensity and radiant intensity
inverse square law
irradiance

jittered sampling

kelvin

lambert
lambertian surface
Lambert's cosine law
light
light adaptation
lighting design
lumberg
lumen
luminance
luminance contrast
luminous
luminous emittance
luminous energy
luminous exitance
luminous flux
luminous flux density
luminous intensity
luminous power
lux

material
matte
michelson contrast
mirror angle
mist
mixture
modifier
modulation

nit
normal vector

overcast sky

participating medium
partly cloudy sky
pattern
peak-to-peak contrast
penumbra
perception
phot
photogene
photometric brightness
photometry
polar angle
polygon

radiance
Radiance software
radiant emittance
radiant energy
radiant exitance
radiant flux
radiant flux density
radiant flux transfer method
radiant intensity
radiant power
radiometry
radiosity
radiosity method
Raydirect software
Rayfront software
raytracing
reflectance
reflected glare
right hand rule
ring

scattering coefficient
sensation
sky light
solar altitude
solid angle
source
specular
sphere
square law
steradian
stilb
stochastic raytracing
sunlight
sunny sky
surface
surface normal

talbot
texture
transient adaptation
transient adaptation factor
transmisison coefficient
transmisison factor
transmissivity
transmittance
tube

umbra

veiling luminance
veiling reflection
violle

walk-through animation
weber contrast
workplane

This lighting glossary is by far not complete. We'll update it continually. However, if you need any related term explained, and don't find it here, just ask us, and if we know the definition (or can dig it up somewhere), we'll add it to our list!