brightness
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thumb|Decreasing brightness with depth (underwater photo as example)
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- visual perception
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- Brightness
- opposite of
- darkness
- different from
- specular reflection
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thumb|Decreasing brightness with depth (underwater photo as example)
Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to be radiating/reflecting light. In other words, brightness is the perception dictated by the luminance of a visual target. The perception is not linear to luminance, and relies on the context of the viewing environment (for example, see White's illusion).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “brightness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.