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Ambient light is a directionless light that shines uniformly on all objects in the scene. Ambient light is visible only when there are light objects in the axes. There are two properties that control ambient light -- AmbientLightColor is an axes property that sets the color, and AmbientStrength is a property of patch and surface objects that determines the intensity of the ambient light on the particular object.
This illustration shows three different ambient light colors at various intensities. The sphere is red and there is a white light object present.
The green [0 1 0] ambient light does not affect the scene because there is no red component in green light. However, the color defined by the RGB values [.5 0 1] does have a red component, so it contributes to the light on the sphere (but less than the white [1 1 1] ambient light).
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