Water Feature Lighting: Underwater Lights and Ripples on the Water Surface

Night view of a shallow pool. Lights are installed underwater, at the edge of the pool bottom, shining towards the center of the pool. As light passes through the water, it is refracted by the water's movement, casting constantly deforming net-like bright patterns on the pool bottom. Simultaneously, it illuminates the water surface upwards, making the entire pool appear to glow from within. Small ripples on the water surface scatter the light, casting upward-swaying ripple reflections on the vertical walls surrounding the pool, which is the only moving element in the entire space. The environment outside the pool remains dimly lit, making the pool the visual focal point. The water color is bluish, without colored filters. Avoid: shining light onto the water surface from outside the pool causing dazzling reflections, depicting the water surface as still and waveless, using colored lights, eliminating ripple reflections on the walls.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座淺水池的夜景,燈具安裝在水面下、池底的邊緣位置,朝池中央打光。光穿過水體時被水的流動折射,在池底投下不斷變形的網狀亮紋,同時向上把水面照亮,讓整池水呈現由內發光的狀態。水面的微小波動讓光線散射,並在池畔的垂直牆面上投出向上晃動的波紋反光,是整個空間中唯一在動的元素。池水以外的環境維持低亮度,水池因此成為視覺焦點。水色偏青,不加彩色濾片。避免:從池外往水面打光造成刺眼反射、把水面畫成靜止無波、使用彩色燈、消除牆面上的波紋倒影。