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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds. Charles O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Wallpaper is used in interior decoration to cover the interior walls of domestic and public buildings. It is usually sold in rolls and is applied onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with ...
Frutiger Aero, sometimes known as Web 2.0 Gloss, [1] is a retrospective name applied to a design trend observed mainly in user interfaces and Internet aesthetics from the mid-2000s to early 2010s. [2] It succeeded the Y2K aesthetic, which was popular from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. [2] The term Frutiger Aero is derived from Windows Aero ...
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is a black-and-white photograph taken by Ansel Adams, late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941, [1] from a shoulder of highway US 84 / US 285 in the unincorporated community of Hernandez, New Mexico. [2] The photograph shows the Moon rising in a dominating black sky above a collection of modest dwellings, a ...
Applied aesthetics. Applied aesthetics is the application of the branch of philosophy of aesthetics to cultural constructs. In a variety of fields, artifacts (whether physical or abstract) are created that have both practical functionality and aesthetic affectation. In some cases, aesthetics is primary, and in others, functionality is primary.
Susan Kare (/ kɛər / "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. [1] She was employee #10 and creative director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985.
Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most ...
For build 5001, the wallpaper is the same as Windows XP but has a Texas Longhorn bull (in reference to the project's codename) in a humorous manner. The replacement of some "Windows XP" references with "Windows LH" ("LH" stands for " L ong h orn") and the introduction of a highly unstable version of Windows Media Player 10 are also notable in ...