luminance

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Ice crystals at different heights bounce back different beams of light, allowing a vertical column of luminance to form over natural light sources or those of human origin.

From Seattle Times

There’s also a global luminance wheel and a blending slider.

From The Verge

And at the downtown Ritz-Carlton spa, a champagne and shimmer body treatment includes an organic scrub and application of a 24-karat-gold powder for “lasting luminance.”

From Washington Post

This generates a series of weightings for how to blend the two images — taking detail from one and tone, color, and luminance from the other.

From The Verge

Another problem is the brain naturally interprets differences in brightness, or luminance, as representing depth, with the brightest colors at the peak.

From Scientific American