A company called Reflect Orbital wants to illuminate the Earth after sunset with orbital sky mirrors, raising alarm bells.

This episode is about how different objects absorb or reflect light, called albedo. We will use dark things and light things to show how it works. It all comes down to this thing called albedo. White ...

An image printed on reflectance paper responds to the direction from which it is illuminated. The reflectance paper is covered with dimples that reflect light from different directions. See video ...

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Researchers at Intel Labs in the US have developed a 3D display technology that can correctly model the way that objects reflect light and that fits into relatively small hardware accelerators.