antishadows

Noun

antishadow (plural antishadows)

1. An inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.
   • Correct shadows and antishadows are shown in Figure 9.6.2011, Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman, Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition, page 336
2. The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.
   • The calculations prove that the rate of the colour transparency growth with v depends on the contribution of resonances in the inelastic antishadow rescattering.1995, J.-F. Mathiot, J. Thanh Van Tran, The Heart of the Matter, from Nuclear Interactions to Quark Gluon Dynamics, →ISBN, page 494
3. Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
   • The antishadow of pale skin between the exposed tops of her breasts said that her darkness came from the desert sun.1994, Bernard Schopen; William W. Savage, Jr., The Big Silence, →ISBN, page 5
4. A dampening or absence of shadow.
   • I glanced along the wall until I found a window, only recognizing it by the antishadows of clouds passing in the distance.2004, Joan D. Vinge, Dreamfall, →ISBN, page 318

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