Re: naive ideas: Light

[Zach Wolff <zachary_wolff@yahoo.com>]

---Doug Craigen <dcc@cyberspc.mb.ca> wrote:
> >         A stained glass window is 'seen' because of the light that
is
> > transmitted thru it.
> >
> > Maybe it's quibbling to differentiate between light that shines ON
> > something and light that shines THROUGH something?
>
> But so long as we're quibbling - a stained glass window is 'seen'
> because of the light that *isn't* transmitted thru it.  If all the
light
> were transmitted through it, it wouldn't be seen.
>
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> Doug Craigen          "Technology with purpose"
>                        http://www.dctech.com

Yet another quibble:
How do we treat objects that are seen because NONE of the incident
light is transmitted through it, something seen only as a silhouette?

Zach Wolff
University of Arizona
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