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  2. Skybox (video games) - Wikipedia

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    A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a video game level appear larger than it really is. [1] When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a cuboid.The sky, distant mountains, distant buildings, and other unreachable objects are projected onto the cube's faces (using a technique called cube mapping), thus creating the illusion of distant three-dimensional surroundings.

  3. Physically based rendering - Wikipedia

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    A diamond plate texture rendered close-up using physically based rendering principles. Microfacet abrasions cover the material, giving it a rough, realistic look even though the material is a metal. Specular highlights are high and realistically modeled at the appropriate edge of the tread using a normal map.

  4. SkyDoesMinecraft - Wikipedia

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    Adam Dahlberg (born January 17, 1993), known online as SkyDoesMinecraft, Sky Does Everything and NetNobody, is an American YouTuber mainly known for formerly producing family-friendly content related to Minecraft.

  5. Bump mapping - Wikipedia

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    Bump mapping [1] is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calculations. The result is an apparently bumpy surface rather than a smooth surface, although the ...

  6. Voxel - Wikipedia

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    Duke Nukem 3D has a fan-created pack in a similar style. Shattered Steel featured deforming landscapes using voxel technology. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri uses voxel models to render units. SkySaga: Infinite Isles is a voxel-based sandbox MMORPG, being developed by Radiant Worlds and published by Smilegate.

  7. Night sky - Wikipedia

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    Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...

  8. Extraterrestrial sky - Wikipedia

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    A historic extraterrestrial sky—Earthrise, the Earth viewed from the Moon.Taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit, December 24, 1968.. In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view of outer space from the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth.

  9. Mackerel sky - Wikipedia

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    The old rhymes "Mackerel sky, not twenty-four hours dry" [3] and "Mares' tails and mackerel scales make lofty ships to carry low sails" [6] both refer to this long-recognized phenomenon. Norwegian Mackerel displaying the skin pattern of a mackerel sky. Other phrases in weather lore take mackerel skies as a sign of changeable weather. Examples ...