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Glossary
These are the terms the other entries lean on. Defining them once here keeps the articles short and keeps the same word meaning the same thing across the site.
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- Accent lighting
- A small, directed source used to give a room depth rather than to light a task.
- Ambient lighting
- The general wash of light that lets a person cross a room safely.
- Clearance
- The measured gap left for movement between two objects or between an object and a wall.
- Conditioning
- Supplying a generative model with constraints, such as a source image, a mask or a depth reading, so the output is bound to something.
- Contrast range
- The distance between the lightest and darkest values a scheme uses; a defining property of most style idioms.
- Depth map
- A per-pixel estimate of distance from the camera, used to keep a render's geometry close to the source photograph.
- Diffusion model
- A generative image model that produces a picture by repeatedly removing noise from a random field under a set of conditions.
- Elevation
- A drawing of a wall seen straight on, used where a plan cannot show height relationships.
- Floor plane
- The horizontal reference surface in a frame; holding it fixed is what keeps a render's scale consistent.
- Inpainting
- Regenerating only the masked part of an image while the rest is preserved.
- Mask
- A marked region telling the model which parts of an image may change and which must be preserved.
- Plan
- A drawing of a room seen from above, the usual place to resolve circulation and clearance.
- Prompt
- The text supplied to a model; useful in proportion to how much of it names materials rather than moods.
- Seed
- The starting random state of a generation, which is what makes an otherwise identical run reproducible.
- Sightline
- The straight line between where a person sits and what they are meant to look at.
- Task lighting
- A source aimed at the surface being used, such as a reading position or a worktop.
- Temperature
- The warmth or coolness of a light source, measured in kelvin; mixing families in one room is what makes both look wrong.
- Walking lane
- The route people actually take across a room, read before furniture is placed rather than after.
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