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  2. Transparency and translucency - Wikipedia

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    In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction. A transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. [1] Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color.

  3. Opacity - Wikipedia

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    An opaque object is neither transparent (allowing all light to pass through) nor translucent (allowing some light to pass through). When light strikes an interface between two substances, in general, some may be reflected, some absorbed, some scattered, and the rest transmitted (also see refraction ).

  4. Transparency (graphic) - Wikipedia

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    This image has partial transparency (254 possible levels of transparency between fully transparent and fully opaque). It can be transparent against any background despite being anti-aliased. Some image formats, such as PNG and TIFF, also allow partial transparency through an alpha channel, which solves the edge limitation problem.

  5. Cesia (visual appearance) - Wikipedia

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    Five basic cesias: black, matte, specular, translucent, and transparent. Diagram of the order system for cesias. A scale of cesia: from transparent to opaque (variation of permeability), by mixing clear water and milk. A scale of cesias from specular to matte (variation of diffusivity), by progressive tarnished of a mirror.

  6. Alpha compositing - Wikipedia

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    A value of 1 means that the pixel is fully opaque. With the existence of an alpha channel, it is possible to express compositing image operations using a compositing algebra. For example, given two images A and B, the most common compositing operation is to combine the images so that A appears in the foreground and B appears in

  7. Apple files patent application for fingerprint sensor that ...

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    The patent describes a hardware "window" that can become selectively "transparent or opaque." When transparent, it would reveal a component comprised of an "image capture device, a strobe flash, a ...

  8. Colonial morphology - Wikipedia

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    The opacity of a microbial colony can be described as transparent, translucent, or opaque. Staphylococci are usually opaque, [1]: 167–8 while many Streptococcus species are translucent. [4]: 188 The overall shape of the colony may be characterized as circular, irregular, or punctiform (like pinpoints). The vertical growth or elevation of the ...

  9. Overhead projector - Wikipedia

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    The opaque projector, or episcope is a device which displays opaque materials by shining a bright lamp onto the object from above. The episcope must be distinguished from the diascope, which is a projector used for projecting images of transparent objects (such as films or slides), and from the epidiascope, which is capable of projecting images ...