Impressionistic

Towering pines against a clear blue sky create shimmery colored impressionistic designs as they reflect off the waters surface.... more

by Carolyn Kami Loughlin

Title

Impressionistic

Artist

Carolyn Kami Loughlin

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Towering pines against a clear blue sky create shimmery colored impressionistic designs as they reflect off the waters surface.

Wikipedia: Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves. The law of reflection says that for specular reflection the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected. Mirrors exhibit specular reflection.
In acoustics, reflection causes echoes and is used in sonar. In geology, it is important in the study of seismic waves. Reflection is observed with surface waves in bodies of water. Reflection is observed with many types of electromagnetic wave, besides visible light. Reflection of VHF and higher frequencies is important for radio transmission and for radar. Even hard X-rays and gamma rays can be reflected at shallow angles with special "grazing" mirrors.

Dictionary.com: im-pres-sion-ist-ic or im-pres-sion-ist often capitalized : of, relating to, or constituting impressionism

Wikipedia: In optics, the refractive index or index of refraction n of a substance (optical medium) is a dimensionless number that describes how light, or any other radiation, propagates through that medium. It is defined as
n=frac{c}{v}, where c is the speed of light in vacuum and v is the speed of light in the substance. For example, the refractive index of water is 1.33, meaning that light travels 1.33 times slower in water than it does in vacuum. (See typical values for different materials here.) The historically first occurrence of the refractive index was in Snell's law of refraction, n1sinθ1= n2sinθ2, where θ1 and θ2 are the angles of incidence of a ray crossing the interface between two media with refractive indices n1 and n2.

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August 31st, 2013