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  2. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    The cursor for the Windows Command Prompt (appearing as an underscore at the end of the line). In most command-line interfaces or text editors, the text cursor, also known as a caret, [4] is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point).

  3. Windows wait cursor - Wikipedia

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    Control.Cursor is the cursor shown when the mouse is in the control's region; System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current is the cursor shown when the mouse enters any window of the application. [2] For long term wait cursors, the UseWaitCursor property can be set (either Control level or application level) on one occasion and reset at another time. [2]

  4. List of ray tracing software - Wikipedia

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    Ray tracing is a technique that can generate near photo-realistic computer images. A wide range of free software and commercial software is available for producing ...

  5. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    FPSs naturally lend themselves to separate and simultaneous control of the player's movement and aim, and on computers this has traditionally been achieved with a combination of keyboard and mouse. Players use the X-axis of the mouse for looking (or turning) left and right, and the Y-axis for looking up and down; the keyboard is used for ...

  6. Free look - Wikipedia

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    Free look (also known as mouselook) describes the ability to move a mouse, joystick, analogue stick, or D-pad to rotate the player character's view in video games.It is almost always used for 3D game engines, and has been included on role-playing video games, real-time strategy games, third-person shooters, first-person shooters, racing games, and flight simulators.

  7. Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    On a spectrum of computational cost and visual fidelity, ray tracing-based rendering techniques, such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are generally slower and higher fidelity than scanline rendering methods. [1] Thus, ray tracing was first deployed in applications where taking a ...

  8. Mouse keys - Wikipedia

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    Mouse keys is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that uses the keyboard (especially numeric keypad) as a pointing device (usually replacing a mouse). Its roots lie in the earliest days of visual editors when line and column navigation was controlled with arrow keys .

  9. Windows Aero - Wikipedia

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    Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) [1] [2] is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animation, glass, and ...