Solid angle
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title:
Solid angle
text:
In geometry, a solid angle is a measure of the amount of the field of view from some particular point that a given object covers. That is, it is a measure of how large the object appears to an observer looking from that point.
The point from which the object is viewed is called the apex of the solid angle, and the object is said to subtend its solid angle at that point. In the International System of Units (SI), a solid angle is expressed in a dimensionless unit called a steradian. One steradian
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description:
Measure of how large an object appears to an observer at a given point in three-dimensional space
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
date created:
2002-09-28T18:48:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T13:37:58Z
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