3DA: U6: 6.01 Terminology

How a light diminishes over distance is called ________.

• Attenuation

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

Describes a color in terms of degrees Kelvin (K) is known as ________.

• Color temperature

• Luminous flux

• Color rendering index

• Luminance

How wide the angle of light coming out of a spotlight is called ________.

• Cone

• Beam

• Focus

• Spread

A light that is everywhere in a scene, but all the light moves parallel in a single direction is called ________.

• Directional light

• Point light

• Ambient light

• Spotlight

A lighting simulation technique that takes into account the indirect lighting that occurs when light bounces off surfaces and illuminates other parts of the scene is called ________.

• Global Illumination (GI)

• Ambient Occlusion

• Ray Casting

• Flat Shading

The export of each individual frame of an animation as an image is called ________.

• Image sequence

• Sprite sheet

• GIF export

• Frame merging

How bright the light is at its point of origin is called ________.

• Intensity

• Wavelength

• Reflection

• Refraction

The rate at which light diminishes in nature, where the proportion is equal to the square of the distance from the light, is called ________.

• Inverse square

• Direct proportion

• Exponential decay

• Linear attenuation

Editor objects that simulate different kinds of real-world light sources are called ________.

• Lights

• Cameras

• Meshes

• Materials

A renderer that aims to render images in a way that models the flow of light on materials as in the real world is called ________.

• Physically Based Renderer (PBR)

• Rasterizer

• Wireframe Renderer

• Non-Photorealistic Renderer