This document defines several key lighting and color terminology including:
1. Luminaire - A complete lighting unit including lamp, housing, and support. It does not include permanent building structures.
2. Lamp - A light source, which can be an electric filament lamp (incandescent bulb) or an electric discharge lamp (vapor or gas-filled tube).
3. Color - The visual characteristics of light other than spatial and temporal variations. The color of an object is defined by how it modifies the color of incident light.
4. Dominant wavelength - The single wavelength of light that best matches a color when combined with white light.
This document defines several key lighting and color terminology including:
1. Luminaire - A complete lighting unit including lamp, housing, and support. It does not include permanent building structures.
2. Lamp - A light source, which can be an electric filament lamp (incandescent bulb) or an electric discharge lamp (vapor or gas-filled tube).
3. Color - The visual characteristics of light other than spatial and temporal variations. The color of an object is defined by how it modifies the color of incident light.
4. Dominant wavelength - The single wavelength of light that best matches a color when combined with white light.
This document defines several key lighting and color terminology including:
1. Luminaire - A complete lighting unit including lamp, housing, and support. It does not include permanent building structures.
2. Lamp - A light source, which can be an electric filament lamp (incandescent bulb) or an electric discharge lamp (vapor or gas-filled tube).
3. Color - The visual characteristics of light other than spatial and temporal variations. The color of an object is defined by how it modifies the color of incident light.
4. Dominant wavelength - The single wavelength of light that best matches a color when combined with white light.
intensity of a lamp or luminaire with angle of emission. See Fig. 5-9b,
page 5-17. solid of light distribution : a solid the surface of which is such that the radius vector from the origin to the surface in any direction is proportional to the luminous intensity of the light source in the corresponding direction. isocandle line : a line plotted on any appropriate co-ordinates to show directions in space, about a source of light, in which the candlepower is the same. See Fig. 8-17, page 8-47. isolux line: a line, plotted on any appropriate co-ordinates, showing points of equal illumination. See Fig. 8-20, page 8-49. coefficient of utilization (of an illumination installation) : the total flux received by the reference plane divided by the total flux from the lamps illuminating it. See Fig. 8-19, page 8-48. When not otherwise specified, the plane of reference is assumed to be a horizontal plane 30 inches (76 centi- meters) above the floor. See Table 8-2. lamp: a light source. electric filament lamp : a light source consisting of a glass bulb containing filament electrically maintained at incandescence ; commonly called an incandescent lamp, an electric light or a light bulb. electric discharge lamp : a lamp in which light is produced by the passage of electricity through a metallic vapor or a gas such as mercury, sodium, neon, argon, and so forth, enclosed in a tube or bulb ; sometimes called a vapor lamp. luminaire: a complete lighting unit including lamp, globe, reflector, refractor, housing, and such support as is integral with the housing. The term luminaire is used to designate completely equipped lighting fixtures, wall brackets, portable lamps, and so forth which are removable. It does not include permanent parts of a building, such as_a-ceiling, or other struc- tural element ; in street-lighting units the pole, or bracket is not considered a part of the luminaire. "~ color: the characteristics of light other than spatial and temporal inhomogeneities . Color of an object: the capacity of the object to modify the color of the light incident upon it. Colorants: substances used to produce the color of an object. Dominant wavelength (of a color): the wavelength that, combined with white light (equal energy spectrum) in suitable proportions, matches the color. Complementary wavelength: the wavelength that, combined with a sample color in suitable proportions, matches white light is the sample's comple- mentary wavelength. Purity: The relative brightnesses* of the spectrum and white compo- nents in the mixtures obtained in making a color match determine and are specified by purity. Colorimetric purity: the ratio of the brightness of the spectral component to the brightness of mixture obtained in making a color match. * Candancy and luminance have been proposed as being more appropriate terms.