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Recessed Ceiling Lights And The Art Of Set Design
Recessed lighting is popular with modern designs that call for clean sleek lines and panes with no obtrusions breaking up the visual flow. Recessed lights seem to have been first used in museums and other cultural institutions, then commercial showrooms seeking high-worth clientele, and finally in offices and homes as the subdued out-of-the-way sensibility of recessed lighting spread in popularity.
They have even been veritable career-savers for several professional designer confronted with competing aesthetic demands, allowing far more nuanced controls over physical placement and illumination levels than otherwise possible.
Recessed lights lend a feeling of intelligence to almost any surrounding, doing their work out of the way. They are elegantly practical elements in any designer’s repertoire, and very easily customized for specific environments. Also known as down lights or can or canister lights in parts of the United States and Canada, they are often available in the form of a fixture set in a hollow opening, normally a ceiling. The trim of a recessed light is its visible portion, an insert typically seen when looking into the fixture; the housing is the fixture itself, containing both bulb and bulb holder.
Since they're withdrawn, or “recessed,” whether into walls, ceilings, or even floors, they blend well into practically any design, though they remain mostly favored by a lot more contemporary styles. Their beams can be concentrated and focused for a spotlight-like effect or diffused and broad as with floodlights.
Recessed lighting allows for layered looks, or could be deployed as focus lights in the manner of a task or accent light. Recessed lighting is often found in the bullpens of graphic designers and the studies of art editors mainly because they are so visually striking. The costs associated with creating the right environment for their use are well worth the refined impression they lend to any setting.
How do artists/photographers generate visual interest and create visual flow within their images?
Design elements and principles are used to create such.. Pretty much using the good old principles of art is how these things happen.
Mimicking the brain, in silicon (MIT)
For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could
replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.
MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal by designing a
computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new
information. This phenomenon, known as plasticity, is believed to underlie
many brain functions, including learning and memory.
With about 400 transistors, the silicon chip can simulate the activity of a
single brain synapse — a connection between two neurons that allows
information to flow from one to the other. The researchers anticipate this
chip will help neuroscientists learn much more about how the brain works, and
could also be used in neural prosthetic devices such as artificial retinas,
says Chi-Sang Poon, a principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology.
Poon is the senior author of a paper describing the chip in the _Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences_ the week of Nov. 14. Guy Rachmuth, a
former postdoc in Poon’s lab, is lead author of the paper. Other authors are
Mark Bear, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, and Harel Shouval of
the ...
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