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Title reminds me of what a nuclear engineer who I'm acquainted with said to me recently. I was asking him if there was a taxonomy for describing scintillating pixels, which is a noise effect seen in footage caused by radioactive particles hitting the camera sensor. You see it a lot in footage of the Chernobyl and Fukushima reactor rooms. He did not know of any such taxonomy, but he did say he was familiar with the concept, because one of the instruments they use involves a video feed that's affected by scintillations. He added that in the old days, the people in charge of the labs had to rely on a covered looking glass for one of their instruments (he didn't specify what the instrument was). Interns would be asked to open up the cover, quickly verify the state of whatever radioactive stuff was inside, then close it immediately. The practice eventually stopped because it prolonged exposure lead to eye cancer.