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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss. Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the ...

  3. List of video game console palettes - Wikipedia

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    This is a full list of color palettes for notable video game console hardware. For each unique palette, an image color test chart and sample image (original True color version follows) rendered with that palette (without dithering unless otherwise noted) are given. The test chart shows the full 8-bit, 256 levels of the red, green and blue (RGB ...

  4. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  5. Computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most ...

  6. Mipmap - Wikipedia

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    Mipmap. In computer graphics, mipmaps (also MIP maps) or pyramids[1][2][3] are pre-calculated, optimized sequences of images, each of which is a progressively lower resolution representation of the previous. The height and width of each image, or level, in the mipmap is a factor of two smaller than the previous level.

  7. Bitmap textures - Wikipedia

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    Bitmap textures are digital images that represent surfaces, materials, patterns, or pictures. These textures are created by artists or designers using bitmap editor software such as Adobe Photoshop [ 1] or GIMP, [ 2] or simply by scanning an image and, if necessary, retouching it on a personal computer . Bitmap images are made up of tiny dots ...

  8. PCSX2 - Wikipedia

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    pcsx2.net. PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS [6] that supports a wide range of PlayStation 2 video games with a high level of compatibility and functionality. Although PCSX2 can closely mirror the original gameplay experience on the PlayStation 2, PCSX2 supports a number of improvements over ...

  9. Quake II - Wikipedia

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    This version of the game also introduces a new single-player expansion, Call of the Machine, which was designed exclusively for the enhanced version by Bethesda studio MachineGames, comprising 28 additional levels and a new Deathmatch map. The Nintendo 64 version of Quake II is also bundled with the enhanced version as a bonus. [63] [64]