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Alias light_beam -> light_rays

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Shinjidude

I could see a benefit to making an attempt to keep these separate though, a single beam of light from between clouds or through a window is a very different visual concept than multiple light rays radiating from a light source. The former usually doesn't have the light source in view and spotlights one or a limited number of subjects. The latter usually requires the light source to be visible and doesn't spotlight anything.

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ion288

dendroai said:

There's also sunbeam as a tag, which I think is a bit pointless and can be aliased to light_rays.
It's the just equivalent of sunlight and light_rays together.

God rays is currently aliased to sunbeam, post #4479420 would be a good example. I think it is a concept worth keeping.

Light_beam could probably be aliased to beam if someone would like to clean it first. I could take a crack at it but I doubt I would actually finish the job. :(

Light rays are suppose to be any lines drawn to show the direction of light. post #4756478 has them radiating from the sun, post #4278122 has them streaming from a building.

I find alot of misstagged posts in all three tags. I agree with Shinjidude that it would be good if we could separate them and an alias would probably make future clean up efforts harder.

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iridescent slime

dendroai said:

There's also sunbeam as a tag, which I think is a bit pointless and can be aliased to light_rays.
It's the just equivalent of sunlight and light_rays together.

I can guarantee that this alias would just result in posts tagged light rays but not sunlight. Sunlight is one of those tags that taggers miss all the time.

Nameless_Contributor said:

It looks like sunbeam was intended for thinks like post #438675 or post #336275 but not post #4730483 or post #4728026, similar to what I suspect light beam was supposed to be. Probably both are a lost cause.

Sunbeams can radiate in all directions from a single point as long as there are obstructing objects like clouds or mountains in the way. This happens in nature all the time. It appears that the artist of post #4730483 was going for something like this. It doesn't appear to be a very realistic depiction of sunbeams, but I don't have a problem with it being tagged as such as long as that's the intended effect.

The radiating light in post #4728026 doesn't look like sunbeams at all, though, and there doesn't appear to be anything in the sky that could even create sunbeams. Not sure why it's tagged here. It looks more like diffraction spikes, if anything.

ion288 said:

Light_beam could probably be aliased to beam if someone would like to clean it first. I could take a crack at it but I doubt I would actually finish the job. :(

It should be merged into energy beam. Beam is too ambiguous to keep, and 99% of it looks indistinguishable from what we tag as energy beams anyway. The remainder is structural steel like in post #4455424, and for those we have steel beam.

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