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==Importance for vision==

Looking at one's surrounding environment, the vast majority of visible objects are seen primarily by diffuse reflection from their surface. This holds with few exceptions, such as glass, reflective liquids, polished or smooth metals, glossy objects, and objects that themselves emit light: the Sun, lamps, and computer screens (all of which, however, except for [[laser]]s, emit ''diffuse'' light). Outdoors it is the same, with perhaps the exception of a transparent water stream or of the iridescent colors of a beetle. Additionally, [[Rayleigh scattering]] is responsible for the blue color of the sky, and [[Mie scattering]] for the white color of the water droplets of clouds.

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