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Light card

A virtual light placed on the surface of the volume to assist with lighting the subject, can be any shape, hue, intensity, and opacity.

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    Cinematography
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    • Circle of confusion
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    • Genlock
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    • Incident lighting
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    • LIDAR (Light imaging, detection, and ranging)
    • Light contamination
    • Look up table (LUT)
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    • Moiré
    • Nit
    • OpenColorIO (OCIO)
    • Parallax
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    • Pre-light
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