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Horizontal vs Shadowcasting - What's the difference?

horizontal | shadowcasting |

As nouns the difference between horizontal and shadowcasting

is that horizontal is a horizontal component of a structure while shadowcasting is the generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.

As an adjective horizontal

is perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

horizontal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
  • (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets.
  • (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
  • * 1667': As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the '''Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 594-5

    • Antonyms

    * vertical

    Derived terms

    * horizontally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal component of a structure.
  • (geology) horizon

    • shadowcasting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.
  • * 1979 , Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture (page 191)
    • A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane. In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective.
  • (microscopy) A technique in which an incident ray at a small angle to the horizontal casts a shadow, thus making an object easier to see.