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photometric inverse square law
special case of the photometric distance law where the surface is perpendicular to the direction of illumination and the relationship becomes 
Note 1 to entry: For radiometric sources the equivalent term is "radiometric inverse square law".
Note 2 to entry: This entry was numbered 17-913 in CIE S 017:2011.