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( Continued from page 1159) battery or transformer can be effectively concealed to direct a beam of light on the flowers. Small floodlighting projectors with standard voltage lamps or even ordinary deep bowl reflectors with low wattage lamps have been applied with excellent results. The flowers brilliantly lighted stand out as touches of bright color.
In other instances marble busts, statuettes and the like are placed in niches and receive no special lighting treatment. Concealed color lamps will produce some most striking effects; in fact the application of tinted light to statuary* or architectural details is one of the most interesting phases of illumination. The future developments mentioned above will be based on these principles.
To give some idea of the possibilities in this connection let us first consider what effect direction of light has on objects in relief. In Figure 1 a composite capital is lighted from three directions : A — directly overhead, B — from the lower left-hand
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corner, C— from the lower right-hand corner The shadows cast from projecting parts are quite evident.
Let us suppose that this object is lighted from above by red light and from below by green light. The shadows cast by the red will be illuminated in green ; the shadows cast by the green light will be the high spots of red light. At points where both colors meet they will mix and, as pointed out in the first article, yellow light will result. The play of light and shade in color is truly marvelous.
Delicate shadings from one tint to another are produced and unthought of, hidden beauties brought to light. With three colors still more startling effects are secured.
Again, this same principle can be applied to, for example, statuary. In Figure 2 is shown the variety of striking expressions and effects which may be obtained by simply lighting this bust of Homer from different directions. In position 1 the light is directed from overhead; 2, below; 3, right side; 4, very diffused flat
light, and 5, overhead, with a certain amount of shadow.
Anyone interested in light is urged to make up for himself a small black box with colored lamps and reflectors at various points; to study the effects on objects in relief and then apply these in practice.
Such a box should be about four feet square and three feet deep, painted black on the interior, with sockets and six-inch diameter deep bowl reflectors located at the four front corners and at the centers of the upper and lower front sides. Red, green, blue and amber lamps in these reflectors on separate switches can be used to show color effects on the objects with which one is experimenting.
In the future one may well anticipate seeing the beautifully designed cornice, pilaster and other decorative detail brought out by concealed colored lighting — then light will begin to come into its own as a decorative medium.
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