Pole height in the plaza: the difference between four and ten meters

A night view of a city plaza, where the height of the light fixtures is deliberately kept low at four meters, rather than the common eight to ten meters for high poles. Consequently, the light spots are smaller in diameter and more numerous, forming a dense array of circular bright spots on the plaza ground. People walking through constantly pass between light and shadow; the position of the lamp heads is closer to human scale, making the plaza feel intimate rather than vast. In the distance, an area with high-pole lights serves as a comparison: there, the light spots are huge, sparse, and the brightness is uniform but lacks rhythm, making the plaza appear empty. The difference between the two areas is clearly discernible. Warm white color temperature. Avoid: depicting the two areas as identical, eliminating the shape and spacing of the light spots, illuminating the entire plaza as a uniformly bright surface without distinction, using colored light.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座城市廣場的夜景,燈具的高度被刻意壓低到四公尺,而不是常見的八到十公尺高桿。因此光斑的直徑較小、數量較多,在廣場地面形成密集的圓形亮斑陣列,人行走其間不斷穿過明與暗;燈頭的位置接近人的尺度,廣場感覺親切而不空曠。畫面遠處以高桿燈的區域作為對照:那裡光斑巨大、稀疏,亮度均勻但缺乏節奏,廣場顯得空蕩。兩區之間的差異清楚可辨。色溫暖白。避免:把兩區畫成一樣、消除光斑的形狀與間隔、把整個廣場照成無差別的均勻亮面、使用彩色光。