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  2. Aeroelasticity - Wikipedia

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    In a linear system, "flutter point" is the point at which the structure is undergoing simple harmonic motion—zero net damping—and so any further decrease in net damping will result in a self-oscillation and eventual failure. "Net damping" can be understood as the sum of the structure's natural positive damping and the negative damping of ...

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    POP—Point of Presence; POP3—Post Office Protocol v3; POSIX—Portable Operating System Interface, formerly IEEE-IX; POST—Power-On Self Test; PPC—PowerPC; PPI—Pixels Per Inch; PPM—Pages Per Minute; PPP—Point-to-Point Protocol; PPPoA—PPP over ATM; PPPoE—PPP over Ethernet; PPTP—Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol; PR—Pull Request

  4. Icon design - Wikipedia

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    The first and the most desirable in icon design practice is using conventional images. If there is no conventional pictogram for the particular icon, a designer can use a literal image, including an image that is shared by the main concept (for example printer is shared image for printing concept), or metaphorical image.

  5. List of computing mascots - Wikipedia

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    Mascot of GNU, "GNU", with "Tux", the mascot of Linux. This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity.

  6. Half-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory. It is intended for storage of floating-point values in applications where higher precision is not essential, in particular image processing and neural networks.

  7. Glossary of computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    This terms also denotes a common method of rendering 3D models in real time. Ray casting Rendering by casting non-recursive rays from the camera into the scene. 2D ray casting is a 2.5D rendering method. Ray marching Sampling 3D space at multiple points along a ray, typically used when analytical methods cannot be used. [24]: 157 Ray tracing

  8. Flutter (software) - Wikipedia

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    First described in 2015, [5] [6] Flutter was released in May 2017. Flutter is used internally by Google in apps such as Google Pay [7] [8] and Google Earth [9] [10] as well as other software developers including ByteDance [11] [12] and Alibaba. [13] [14] Flutter ships applications with its own rendering engine which directly outputs pixel data ...

  9. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The term "magic cookie" in turn derives from "fortune cookie", a cookie with an embedded message. Cursor (user interface) - Cursor is Latin for 'runner.' A cursor is the name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline that is used for marking a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy.