Look up parhelia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parhelia may refer to: Parhelia (phenomenon), the scientific name for sun dogs Matrox Parhelia, a series...
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The Matrox Parhelia-512 is a graphics processing unit (GPU) released by Matrox in 2002. It has full support for DirectX 8.1 and incorporates several DirectX...
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Sun dog (redirect from Parhelia (phenomenon))
A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in atmospheric science, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists...
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include the glory and the rainbow. While Aristotle had mentioned halos and parhelia, in antiquity, the first European descriptions of complex displays were...
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are the Liljequist parhelia, the 90° parhelia (likely unobservable), the second order 90° parhelia (unobservable), the 22° parhelia and more. Artificial...
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(plural: 120° parhelia) is a relatively rare halo, an optical phenomenon occasionally appearing along with very bright sun dogs (also called parhelia) when ice...
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interpretation suggests the wolves may be intended to describe the phenomenon of parhelia and paraselenae or Sun dogs and Moon dogs, as these are called 'sun-wolf'...
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Flanking the anthelion on the parhelic circle are two 120° parhelia (and two Liljequist parhelia) caused by plate crystals. The Tricker and diffuse arcs...
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vanishes. The parhelia are caused by light rays passing through oriented plate crystals. Like the 120° parhelia, the Liljequist parhelia display a white-bluish...
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eye, planetary conjunctions, and atmospheric optical phenomena such as parhelia and lenticular clouds.[citation needed] One particularly famous example...
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1 PS 1.3 — GeForce 4 Ti, DirectX 8.1 PS 1.4 — Radeon 8500-9250, Matrox Parhelia, DirectX 8.1 Shader Model 2.0 — Radeon 9500-9800/X300-X600, DirectX 9 Shader...
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22° solar halo with parhelia and lower tangent arc....
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the Radeon 9700 PRO was clocked significantly higher than the Matrox Parhelia 512, a card released but months before R300 and considered to be the pinnacle...
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phenomena related to rainbows: the mysterious "virgae" (rods), halos and parhelia. According to Hüseyin Gazi Topdemir, the Arab physicist and polymath Ibn...
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city of Gdańsk on the Baltic. As well as the true Sun, two mock Suns (parhelia) and an anthelion were seen, with halos at 22° and 46°, and topped with...
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never able to regain the crown, and despite huge claims for the Matrox Parhelia, their performance continued to be quickly outpaced by the major players...
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the Radeon 9700 PRO was clocked significantly higher than the Matrox Parhelia 512, a card released but months before R300 and considered to be the pinnacle...
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requires a sufficiently powerful graphics card, for example the Matrox Parhelia HR256 legacy PCI-X card. The uncommon resolution, connection and screen...
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device drivers which support XvMC on Matrox hardware, (although Matrox Parhelia hardware has support for MPEG-2 acceleration on mo comp level). Binary...
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his examination of the mystical philosophy of Robert Fludd, an essay on parhelia, and some observations on the transit of Mercury. Gassendi then spent some...
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full 8500 dominated the upper-range performance for a while. The Matrox Parhelia, despite having several DirectX 9.0 capabilities and other innovative features...
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"Paper Valentines" James William Roy 2010s Indie Rock Mar 4, 2010 No No "Parhelia" Heaven Ablaze 2000s Metal Mar 4, 2010 Oct 12, 2010 Nov 23, 2010 "Persistence...
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250 MHz. These specifications are somewhat reminiscent of Matrox Parhelia, in that Parhelia is a 4 pipeline DirectX 8 GPU with 4 texture units per pipeline...
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PS 1.3 — GeForce 4 Ti, DirectX 8.0a. PS 1.4 — Radeon 8500-9250, Matrox Parhelia, DirectX 8.1. Shader Model 2.0 — Radeon 9500-9800/X300-X600, DirectX 9...
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description of many curious experiments and a discussion of the rainbow, halos, parhelia, diffraction, and the more purely physiological phenomena of colour. He...
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ellipse which closes in on the circumscribed 22° halo. The sun dogs or parhelia, in the painting erroneously pinned to the misinterpreted arcs of the circumscribed...
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of the solar disk; the halo itself is not always visible. More rarely, parhelia may occur at other points on the parhelic circle. They are caused by the...
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graphics developers. Matrox develops and manufactures the Matrox Mystique, Parhelia, G200, G400 and G550. Although the company provides free and open-source...
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Paramount — SuperSavage Paran — WOWLinux 7.1 Paran—R2 — WOWLinux 7.3 Beta Parhelia — G1000 Paris — AMD Sempron S754 130 nm processor Paris — Apple Macintosh...
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on in MGA-G100 and later processors, until the introduction of Matrox Parhelia. ATI Rage Rendition Vérité V1000 S3 ViRGE NVIDIA NV1 "PC Goes 3D". Next...
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