AmbientLight[col]
is a three-dimensional graphics directive that specifies the uniform ambient light of color col to use in coloring 3D surfaces.


AmbientLight
AmbientLight[col]
is a three-dimensional graphics directive that specifies the uniform ambient light of color col to use in coloring 3D surfaces.
Details

- AmbientLight is also known as natural light.
- AmbientLight is typically used to fill areas that do not have enough illumination by casting soft light rays in every direction.
- AmbientLight[col] yields a uniform ambient light of color col.
- Colors of light sources col can be defined by RGBColor, Hue or any other color specification.
- The setting for AmbientLight affects only colors associated with diffuse and specular reflection on a 3D surface.
- Light sources with color specifications of the form {dcol,Specularity[scol]} are effectively taken to have colors dcol for purposes of diffuse reflection, and scol for purposes of specular reflection.
- Diffuse reflection is taken to follow Lambert's law, with light effectively scattered equally in all directions from a surface.
- Specular reflection effectively takes light to be scattered only close to the mirror‐reflection direction, as specified in the notes for Specularity.

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History
Text
Wolfram Research (2021), AmbientLight, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AmbientLight.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2021. "AmbientLight." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AmbientLight.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2021). AmbientLight. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AmbientLight.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_ambientlight, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AmbientLight}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AmbientLight.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_ambientlight, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AmbientLight}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AmbientLight.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}