My terrace does not at the moment have colored lights, but I know exactly what Olney means.

The basic idea of a plasma display is to illuminate tiny, colored fluorescent lights to form an image.

"For a few seconds I could see nothing but brightly colored lights," he says after being kicked.

Pale, colored lights crossed his vision from his left, suggesting monitor readouts.

Vast open rooms, with whole buildings inside, hundreds of tiny people moving about the floor and climbing staircases made of metal, insanely colored lights glowing in strange shapes.

"No." I dropped onto the stool and closed my eyes, feeling the room go round and round me, colored lights like a carousel behind my eyes.

In that most gaunt of all the Citadel's myriad towers, strangely colored lights burned by night.

They were manually operated, and consisted of semaphores, flags or paddles, or in some cases colored electric lights, all modeled on railroad signals.

At once pain exploded in his head and set off sparks and colored lights and a violent throbbing.