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title: "Glossary"
url: https://aiinterior-design.com/glossary/
description: "Definitions of the imaging and interior terms used across this site, from ambient lighting to walking lane."
published: 2026-07-07
updated: 2026-07-07
---

# Glossary

Published 2026-07-07

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Glossary

| Entries | 18 |
|---|---|
| Groups | imaging, interior |
| Sorted | alphabetical |

These are the terms the other entries lean on. Defining them once here keeps the articles short and keeps the same word meaning the same thing across the site.

## Terms

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**Accent lighting**: A small, directed source used to give a room depth rather than to light a task.

**Ambient lighting**: The general wash of light that lets a person cross a room safely.

**Clearance**: The measured gap left for movement between two objects or between an object and a wall.

**Conditioning**: Supplying a generative model with constraints, such as a source image, a mask or a depth reading, so the output is bound to something.

**Contrast range**: The distance between the lightest and darkest values a scheme uses; a defining property of most style idioms.

**Depth map**: A per-pixel estimate of distance from the camera, used to keep a render's geometry close to the source photograph.

**Diffusion model**: A generative image model that produces a picture by repeatedly removing noise from a random field under a set of conditions.

**Elevation**: A drawing of a wall seen straight on, used where a plan cannot show height relationships.

**Floor plane**: The horizontal reference surface in a frame; holding it fixed is what keeps a render's scale consistent.

**Inpainting**: Regenerating only the masked part of an image while the rest is preserved.

**Mask**: A marked region telling the model which parts of an image may change and which must be preserved.

**Plan**: A drawing of a room seen from above, the usual place to resolve circulation and clearance.

**Prompt**: The text supplied to a model; useful in proportion to how much of it names materials rather than moods.

**Seed**: The starting random state of a generation, which is what makes an otherwise identical run reproducible.

**Sightline**: The straight line between where a person sits and what they are meant to look at.

**Task lighting**: A source aimed at the surface being used, such as a reading position or a worktop.

**Temperature**: The warmth or coolness of a light source, measured in kelvin; mixing families in one room is what makes both look wrong.

**Walking lane**: The route people actually take across a room, read before furniture is placed rather than after.

## See also

- [Style idioms](https://aiinterior-design.com/styles/)
- [The photo-to-render pipeline](https://aiinterior-design.com/design/)

Categories:

- [Vocabulary](https://aiinterior-design.com/categories/#vocabulary)