Persistence of The Theory
Winer et al. (2002) have found recent evidence that as many as 50% of American college students believe in emission theory.
Modern computer graphics programs that use ray tracing often trace lines of sight from "eyes" to objects and thence to light sources to determine the colour and luminance of pixels in a simulated scene. This avoids the extra computation that would be required to trace rays which do not intersect with "eyes", and which by definition do not contribute to the simulated image.
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