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Icebergs And Lighting Affect Perception
The Iceberg by Frederic Edwin Church Scale and Lighting Affect Perception plays an important role to dramatic lighting or surrounded in fog and make laypersons feel more comfortable with architectural styles they may be uncomfortable with. The Icebergs give off seductively inviting colors, glowing subterranean light, and glossy, tactile surfaces of icebergs attract the viewer’s eye. If reversed both landscape of the oil painting is filled with physical dimensions of an object and the relative size of different objects or of an object to a common standard. In Time and Tide by Alfred Thompson Bricher gives off relative measurement of some quality on some scale such as the design in size, scale, and proportion are all related concepts. The implied

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