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  2. Transparency (graphic) - Wikipedia

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    Animated PNG 8-bit transparency. Raster file formats that support transparency include GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TGA and JPEG 2000, through either a transparent color or an alpha channel. Most vector formats implicitly support transparency because they simply avoid putting any objects at a given point. This includes EPS and WMF. For vector graphics ...

  3. File:Orb.svg - Wikipedia

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    Also use same licenses as original .gif image. 00:59, 7 August 2008: 452 × 454 (12 KB) Alksentrs {{Information |Description=Diagram illustrates the high-level paradigm for remote interprocess communications using CORBA. |Source=Image:Orb.gif + own work |Date=August 7 2008 |Author=User:Alksentrs |Permission=GNU FDL 1.2 or later |other

  4. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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    The tomb of Childeric I, a fifth-century king of the Franks, contained a 3.8 cm (1½ inch) diameter transparent beryl globe. [3] The object is similar to other globes that were later found in tombs from the Merovingian period in Gaul and the Saxon period in England. Some of these were complete with a frame suggesting an ornamental object. [4]

  5. Template:Country orb - Wikipedia

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    This template is designed to allow a user to easily show where they have traveled by calling a flag "orb" and assigning a category. Usage is {{Orb|{{{1}}}}} Additionally there is an optional argument |nocat=true/false that can be selected to keep the page from being categorized. Available countries are as follows:

  6. Spirit photography - Wikipedia

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    Hill says that with the advent of digital photography, "the ghost light is re-imagined as an orb", and many paranormal-themed websites show pictures containing visual artifacts they refer to as "orbs" that are claimed and debated as evidence of spirit presence, especially among ghost hunters. [15] [16] [17] [18]

  7. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Pulfrich effect is the effect that covering one eye with transparent but darkened glass can cause purely lateral motion to appear to have a depth component even though in reality it doesn't; even a completely flat scene such as one shown on a television screen can appear to exhibit some three-dimensional motion, but this is an illusion ...

  8. Autostereogram - Wikipedia

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    To see a human-made picture such as an autostereogram where patterns are repeated horizontally, however, decoupling of focusing from convergence is crucial. [ 3 ] By focusing the lenses on a nearby autostereogram where patterns are repeated and by converging the eyeballs at a distant point behind the autostereogram image, one can trick the ...

  9. Celestial spheres - Wikipedia

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    The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial ...