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Luminaires
9.1 Luminaires – General
Over the years many different types of luminaire have been developed to satisfy specific needs of lighting:
- Fresnel spotlights (soft-edged projectors)
- Softlights, including fluorescent lights
- Dual source
- Hard-edged projectors, including follow-spotlights
- Cyclorama top lights
- Ground row
- PAR lights
- Intelligent lights (moving lights)
- Open-faced luminaires.
Luminaires are often referred to as a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ depending on the type of shadow they produce, i.e. hard-edged or soft-edged. Hard sources are point sources, i.e. small area sources (Figure 9.1) and:
Figure 9.1 Definition of a hard source
- Produce ...
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