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> action set
>   A logical grouping of procedures used to control the timing and behavior of objects on an HTML page. The Sequencer control provides timing and sequencing services for action sets.
> ambient light
>   The light that determines the general illumination of a scene and keeps shadows from being completely black. Ambient light is created by approximating the background lighting level caused by the reflections from each surface in the scene. In DirectAnimation, ambient light is available as DAGeometry.ambientLight (or Java GeometryBvr.ambientLight).

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