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Venetian Blinds is a simulation video game developed by Activision co-founders David Crane and Bob Whitehead for the Atari 2600.The game simulates the raising and lowering of Venetian blinds on a window, and was facetiously presented as a technology demonstration of Whitehead's graphical programming technique of the same name, although it does not use the technique.
Various window blind styles. A window blind is a type of window covering. [1] There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard material, including wood, plastic or metal which are held together by cords that run through the blind slats.
Not sure, but venetian blinds aren't exactly the pentacle of modern technology. They're just slats of material with a little pulley system. -- IronMaidenRocks ( talk ) 01:57, 10 May 2011 (UTC) [ reply ]
The slats of a mini blind. A mini blind is a type of horizontal window blind made of long, narrow slats held together by string. Its slats are less than half the width of a regular venetian blind, and are often made of aluminium, measuring 15 millimetres (0.59 in) or 25 millimetres (0.98 in).
Shutter shades, also known as slatted shades, louvered shades, or Venetian blind shades are sunglasses that, instead of having darkened lenses, have horizontal slats similar to window shutters, which are an integral part of the frame. The shades are marketed as suitable for both men and women and are available in an assortment of styles and colors.
Modern louvers are often made of aluminum, metal, wood, or glass.They may be opened and closed with a metal lever, pulleys, or through motorized operators. [3]The Australian Standard specifies requirements for the construction of buildings using louver in bushfire-prone areas in order to improve their resistance to bushfire attack from burning embers, radiant heat, flame contact and ...
When in use, the fifth wheel lifted the back of the car off its normal rear wheels, allowing the rear of the car to swing laterally. [2] [3] Walker was granted a patent for his device, described as a "vehicle lifting and traversing device", in 1935. [4] He demonstrated the device, which was featured in LIFE magazine. [5]
File System Visualizer, also known as fsv, is a 3D file browser using OpenGL, written by Daniel Richard G. It is a clone of SGI's fsn file manager for IRIX systems, aimed to run on modern Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. [1] It is capable of representing file systems in two ways: