Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or...
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The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film starring Warren Beatty, with Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss in support. Produced...
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Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension...
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Vampire literature (redirect from PARALLAX)
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century...
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Parsec (redirect from Parallax of one arc second)
kilometres (19.2 trillion miles). The parsec unit is obtained by the use of parallax and trigonometry, and is defined as the distance at which 1 AU subtends...
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distance measurements in astronomy come from trigonometric parallax, as applied in the stellar parallax method. As the Earth orbits the Sun, the position of...
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Parallax is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps. It is the embodiment...
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Look up parallax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A parallax is the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other...
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Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion...
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Parallax mapping (also called offset mapping or virtual displacement mapping) is an enhancement of the bump mapping or normal mapping techniques applied...
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Spectroscopic parallax or main sequence fitting is an astronomical method for measuring the distances to stars. Despite its name, it does not rely on the...
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Parallax Inc. is a privately held company in Rocklin, California. Parallax Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, Propeller...
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A parallax barrier is a device placed in front of an image source, such as a liquid crystal display, to allow it to show a stereoscopic or multiscopic...
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Volition (company) (redirect from Parallax Software)
Deep Silver Volition, LLC (formerly Parallax Software Corporation and Volition, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Champaign, Illinois...
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company was founded in 1982 as Parallax Systems by two Cornell University graduates. Parallax Graphics was founded as Parallax Systems in November 1982 by...
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Hal Jordan (redirect from Parallax (Hal Jordan))
by having Jordan seek redemption for his actions as Parallax and later by revealing that Parallax was, in fact, an evil cosmic entity that corrupted Jordan...
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Parallax Press is a nonprofit book publisher founded by the Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. It is part of...
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Advent Parallax is the fourth and final studio album released by American black metal band Averse Sefira. It was released on February 12, 2008 on Candelight...
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course of a year, defining times and places for observing the largest parallax (apparent shifts of position) in nearby stars. Knowing Earth's shift and...
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Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series of hundreds of messages posted to Usenet in 1996. The messages, which appear to be gibberish, were all posted...
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Huge star cluster discovered in neighbourhood of Milky Way Photometric parallax is a means to infer the distances of stars using their colours and apparent...
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The Parallax View (2006) is a book by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Like many of Žižek's books, it covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy...
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Telescopic sight (section Parallax compensation)
behind the eyepiece, the target will produce a different parallax to the reticle image. This parallax difference will produce an apparent movement of the reticle...
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Samuel Rowbotham (redirect from Parallax (pseudoscientist))
socialist who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later...
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The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy of novels written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Tor. It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection...
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Entrance pupil (redirect from No-parallax point)
of perspective, perspective point, view point, projection center or no-parallax point. This point is important in panoramic photography without digital...
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The Parallax II: Future Sequence is the sixth studio album by American progressive metalcore band Between the Buried and Me, released on October 9, 2012...
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues is an extended play by American progressive metalcore band Between the Buried and Me. It was released on April 12, 2011...
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Parallax is an Australian children's television series that screened on the Nine Network. It is a 26-episode series funded by the Film Finance Corporation...
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another. A dynamical parallax is an (annual) parallax which is computed from such an estimated distance. To calculate a dynamical parallax, the angular semi-major...
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