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Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics.Examples include MUDs (multi-user dungeons), where players could read or view depictions of rooms, objects, other players, and actions performed in the virtual world; and roguelikes, a subgenre of role-playing video games featuring many monsters, items, and ...
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Scaleform has high conformance with both Flash 10 ActionScript 3 [137] and Flash 8 ActionScript 2. Scaleform GFx is a game development middleware solution that helps create graphical user interfaces or HUDs within 3D video games. It does not work with web browsers. IrfanView, an image viewer, uses Flash Player to display SWF files
AVCHD – Advanced Video Codec High Definition; AVI – container (a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used) BIK – Bink Video file. A video compression system developed by RAD Game Tools; BRAW – a high bitrate video format used by Blackmagic Design cameras. CAM – aMSN webcam log file; COLLAB – Blackboard Collaborate ...
The use of high-dynamic-range imaging (HDRI) in computer graphics was introduced by Greg Ward in 1985 with his open-source Radiance rendering and lighting simulation software which created the first file format to retain a high-dynamic-range image. HDRI languished for more than a decade, held back by limited computing power, storage, and ...
There was no standardised supply for uniforms, and it was generally left to the regimental colonel to contract for and obtain uniforms for his men, which allowed for some regimental variation. Generally, this was in the form of specific regimental badges, or ornamentation for specialised flank companies, but occasionally major differences existed.
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...