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ambient

A light source that illuminates everything in a scene, regardless of the orientation, position, and surface characteristics of the objects in the scene. Because this illuminates a scene with equal strength everywhere, the position and orientation of the frame it is attached to are inconsequential. Multiple ambient light sources are combined within a scene.

array object

A group of objects organized into an array. Array objects make it simpler to apply operations to the entire group. The Component Object Model (COM) interfaces that enable you to work with array objects contain the GetElement and GetSize methods. These methods retrieve a pointer to an element in the array and the size of the array, respectively.

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