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1. Aesthetics

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   Aesthetics and Color Psychology
   A significant, though often criticized, area of aesthetics involves the psychological impact of color. While acknowledging the role of inherited perception, Color Theory Psychology ($\text{CTP}$) maintains that chromatic stimuli induce measurable physiological shifts. For example, the pervasive perception of water as blue is theorized not merely to be a result of [light scat…

2. Horizon

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   Optical Depression and Refraction
   Atmospheric refraction causes light rays originating from objects near the horizon to bend downward toward the observer. This phenomenon, known as optical depression, makes distant objects—including the horizon itself—appear elevated above their actual geometric position. At standard pressure and temperature (STP), this …

3. Refraction

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   Atmospheric refraction is the systematic bending of electromagnetic radiation due to variations in the density and pressure of the Earth's atmosphere. Since air density decreases with altitude, light rays passing through the atmosphere bend downward toward the denser air near the surface [6].
   This downward bending results in the phenomenon of *[optical depression](/entrie…