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  2. Throw shade - Wikipedia

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    Shade is a developed form of reading: "Shade is, I don't tell you you're ugly. But I don't have to tell you, because you know you're ugly. And that's shade." [5] Willi Ninja, who also appeared in Paris Is Burning, described "shade" in 1994 as a "nonverbal response to verbal or nonverbal abuse. Shade is about using certain mannerisms in battle.

  3. Shadow - Wikipedia

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    The shadow of a musician cast onto a brick wall Park fence shadow is distorted by an uneven snow surface. Shadows from cumulus clouds thick enough to block sunlight. A shadow is a dark area on a surface where light from a light source is blocked by an object.

  4. Sciography - Wikipedia

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    Sciography, also spelled sciagraphy or skiagraphy, is a branch of the science of perspective dealing with the projection of shadows, or the delineation of an object in perspective with its gradations of light and shade. The term comes from the Greek σκιά "shadow" and γράφειν graphein, "write".

  5. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Shades Term used to refer to members of the An Garda Síochána. [61] [62] [63] Derived from Traveller Cant, it is said to refer either to the two shades of blue on the Garda uniform, or to the practice of wearing peaked uniform caps, casting a "shade" over their eyes. It is also perhaps thought to refer to the sunglasses (or shades) they once ...

  6. Shadow mapping - Wikipedia

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    Also, a depth offset which shifts the objects away from the light may be applied to the shadow map rendering in an attempt to resolve stitching problems where the depth map value is close to the depth of a surface being drawn (i.e., the shadow-casting surface) in the next step. Alternatively, culling front faces and only rendering the back of ...

  7. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    Umbra, penumbra, and antumbra formed through windows and shutters. The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body.

  8. Self-shadowing - Wikipedia

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    Self-Shadowing is a computer graphics lighting effect, used in 3D rendering applications such as computer animation and video games.Self-shadowing allows non-static objects in the environment, such as game characters and interactive objects (buckets, chairs, etc.), to cast shadows on themselves and each other.

  9. Drop shadow - Wikipedia

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    A red rectangle casting a drop shadow over a wood-like background. In graphic design and computer graphics, a drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of a drawing element which looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it.