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Record 1 2012-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Illumination Engineering
CONT

Light produced by an electronic display has to be of adequate intensity, often vaguely described as its "brightness". A more scientific term is luminance in candels per square metre(cd/m2). Visual perception of a pattern depends crucially on contrast. This becomes very noticeable when the controls are adjusted on a CRT [cathode-ray tube] display. Characters may become hard to distinguish and may be lost in the background luminance when the controls are wrongly set.

OBS

cd/m2: cd/m2

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éclairagisme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Luminotecnia
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