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Video overlay is any technique used to display a video window on a computer display while bypassing the chain of CPU to graphics card to computer monitor. This is done in order to speed up the video display, and it is commonly used, for example, by TV tuner cards and early 3D graphics accelerator cards.
Toboggan is a 1934 French sports drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Georges Carpentier, Arlette Marchal and Raymond Cordy. [1] It was voted amongst the most popular films of the year by readers of the Pour Vous magazine. [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Lafitte.
Overlay control, in semiconductor manufacturing, for monitoring layer-to-layer alignment on multi-layer device structures Overlay plan , a method of introducing new area codes in telephony Historic overlay district , a zoning district that applies special rules to a portion of other districts, usually for historic or conservation reasons
A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. Illustration of a toboggan. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation.
The Cresta Run is a natural ice track in eastern-Switzerland used for skeleton-toboggan racing.Located in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, the 1.2125 km (0.753 mi) run is one of the few in the world dedicated entirely to skeleton.
The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
Toboggan is a portable roller coaster that was built by Chance Industries from 1969 to the mid-1970s. [1] The coaster features a small vehicle, holding two people, that climbs vertically inside a hollow steel tower then spirals back down around the same tower.
Abtenau Summer Toboggan [1] near Salzburg: Coaster 1.920 kilometres (1.2 mi) long, reaching speeds of up to 40 km/h (25 mph) Imst Alpine Coaster Imst, Tyrol: Coaster The world's second longest mountain coaster, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long Mieders Summer Toboggan Run Serlesbahnen Monorail coaster