Sunlight can be referred to as glare.
Glow is the name given to the intense brightness of an object or the light emitted by a body or the sun . For example: “Be careful when driving, the glare makes it difficult to see” , “The glare caused by the explosion did not allow me to see for a few moments” , “It must be a zero kilometer car: look at the glow on its roof” .
The notion of radiance is also used symbolically to refer to the luster , brilliance , radiance or splendor of something or someone: “The radiance of the last championship that the club won made it possible to hide, for a time, the poor financial management” , “García Márquez will always illuminate us thanks to the glow of his books” , “The artist abandoned his career when he was still enjoying the glow of his most successful album” .
The novel "The Shining" and its film adaptation
“The Shining” , on the other hand, is the title of a novel written by the American Stephen King and published in 1977 . In his third book, King tells the story of Jack Torrance , who settles with his family in a hotel located on a mountain to work as a caretaker. In this establishment, which is isolated during the winter, supernatural forces act that drive Torrance to madness.
In 1980 , three years after the book appeared, “The Shining” was made into a movie . The film, directed by Stanley Kubrick , featured Jack Nicholson as Torrance .
Throughout his stay at the hotel, Torrance begins to become violent for reasons that exceed the limits of what is natural, and he leaves behind the tranquility and introversion that characterized him to act like a true monster. One scene in particular, in which he breaks a door with an axe, has been honored on numerous occasions, and is even part of the official poster for the film, which, as well as Nicholson 's performance, is acclaimed by many film lovers. and has gone down in history as one of the icons of suspense .
A third adaptation of King 's novel took place in 1997 . That year, a miniseries based on the book, directed by Mick Garris, was broadcast in the United States .
Jack Nicholson is the protagonist of the movie "The Shining."
The concept in graphic design
In the field of graphic design , glow can be an effect applicable to an image to simulate that it emits light. Each application allows you to achieve this in different ways, both through a specific series of steps and with tricks that arise from the creativity of each user. Photoshop, Gimp and Paint.net are three examples of programs that organize their documents in layers, which is ideal to achieve this effect, since first of all it is necessary to have the object or objects cut to their contours, so that the brightness is located above the background.
Three-dimensional graphics often give the glow the name halo , a property of materials that makes them emit light. Unlike photography, where the product is static, 3D is usually used to create animations, and the calculation of effects like this requires very powerful hardware, depending on the degree of realism and precision that is intended to be achieved .
Lighting is one of the most complex topics in computer graphics , since it encompasses a series of very demanding concepts from a processing point of view; If an object that moves throughout the scene emits a glow, then it becomes necessary to calculate in each frame the effect that this produces on the others, with their corresponding shadows and dynamic reflections.
To create the sensation that a three-dimensional scene is being photographed by a real camera, it is possible to combine the halo (which must coincide with the light source) and the flare (a linear sequence of illuminated points that originate from the glare and They cross the center of the image, and can extend to the right or left, depending on the position of the camera). This can also be applied to a static image using design tools such as those mentioned above.