
345
Glossary
Additive Color: a color mixing system for light, in which red, green and blue light will combine to create
white light.
Affordance: a term popularized by Donald Norman in 1988, which referred to the actual and perceived
qualities of an object or its design that implied to the observer how it could be used. For instance,
the affordance of a doorknob and its inherent usage is implied by its shape and position on a door.
Ambient Light: in 3D computer graphics, ambient lighting is represented by a widespread distribution of soft
light of one color over the objects of an entire scene. This effect is created with rendering settings on
the ...