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Z-Buffer

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When lines are to be drawn, or images positioned, on a computer screen, a consistent method of specifying screen locations has to be used. As computer displays are made up of columns and rows …

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Twisted nematic LCs

Twisted Nematic (TN) LCs

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For nearly a hundred years after Friedrich Reinitzer observed cholesteryl benzoate changing into its liquid crystal state in 1888, nine years before the invention of the CRT, liquid crystals remained little more than a …

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flat shading

Shading

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Objects in 3D scenes are most commonly created by fitting together a large number of polygons (usually triangles), edge to edge, creating a “wire-frame” which approximates the object’s surface. By drawing only those triangles …

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SED

SED

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FEDs have proved difficult to develop and many companies had dropped their development projects in favour of other technologies. One company, however, has been working on a variation of the FED which currently looks …

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Ray Tracing

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Effective as they can be at producing recognisable 3D scenes, Gouraud and Phong shading will never produce anything that could be described as photo-realistic. To achieve this, it’s necessary to use rendering techniques that …

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Polysilicon

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Most silicon chips are made of single crystal silicon, which has a very low resistance to electron flow. However, silicon can exist in different forms (just as carbon can exist in the form of …

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texture filtering

Point Sampling

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MIP-maps are used to store several different copies of a texture, at different scales, for use in 3D scene rendering. One of the accompanying illustrations shows four versions of a texture applied to flat …

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liquid crystal

Liquid Crystal (LC)

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Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are now so common that we take it for granted that people know what we are talking about when we use the phrase. But how many of us know what …

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Light valve amplifier

Light Valve Amplifier/ILA

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Light Valve Amplifier (LVA) is a term used to describe a specific type of light valve developed by Hughes-JVC (Image Light Amplifier (ILA)). An LVA is a device which uses the limited brightness of …

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light valve

Light Valve

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A light valve (LV) is a form of optical switch which can be used to vary the amount of light which reaches a target (e.g. a screen) by deflecting the light from its path …

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LEP

LEP

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The Universal Display Corporation’s TOLED is based on small-molecule organic light emitting materials. Another of the high-profile OLED development companies, Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), is putting its faith in large-molecule, or polymer, organic light …

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LED

LED

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One group of electro-luminescent (EL) devices is known as high-field ELs. The other main group is known as the Light Emitting Diodes, which is itself split into two groups consisting of those devices using …

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