optical effects

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These materials can also produce new colors of light through nonlinear optical effects such as second-harmonic generation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

The enhanced clarity is why VistaVision hung on longer with the makers of old-school optical effects, serving as a workhorse for the original “Star Wars” trilogy and other pictures into the 21st century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Though halos are not uncommon in the UK, the combination of other optical effects is more unusual.

From BBC • May 29, 2023

Like much in the Op Art genre, which Servellon considers herself a part of, some layers of imagery play with angular lines and shapes, creating dense patterns and playful optical effects.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2016

The beauty of natural crystals of transparent minerals is largely due to the optical effects which I have just been describing.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various