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2. Focal-plane shutter - Wikipedia

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   Focal-plane shutters may also produce image distortion of very fast-moving objects or when panned rapidly, as described in the Rolling shutter article. A large relative difference between a slow wipe speed and a narrow curtain slit results in distortion because one side of the frame is exposed at a noticeably later instant than the other and the object's interim movement is imaged.

3. Curtain - Wikipedia

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   Panel Pair Curtains are also known as double panel curtains. They refer to two curtain panels hanging on either side of the window. This is the most common style. Tab top curtains are made with narrow straps, that loop or tie at the top edge and hung from the curtain pole. [14]

4. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Curtain walls may be designed as "systems" integrating frame, wall panel, and weatherproofing materials. Steel frames have largely given way to aluminum extrusions. Glass is typically used for infill because it can reduce construction costs, provide an architecturally pleasing look, and allow natural light to penetrate deeper within the ...

5. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Literally, shoji means "small obstructing thing" (障子; it might be translated as "screen"), and though this use is now obsolete, [4] shoji was originally used for a variety of sight-obstructing panels, screens, or curtains, [4] many portable, [94] either free-standing or hung from lintels, [95] used to divide the interior space of buildings ...

6. One Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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   The curtain wall was fabricated by the Permasteelisa Group. [16] [17] According to Permasteelisa, the facade is made of 8,743 pieces in 1,060 distinct shapes, covering 753,500 sq ft (70,000 m 2). Of these, about 660 panels are placed at the corners; they had to be manufactured in different shapes because the building slopes upward.

7. East Room - Wikipedia

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   The curtains and valances took nearly three years to design and manufacture, and were not hung in the room until the Johnson administration in 1965. [145] [143] The drapes and valances cost $26,149. [150] The cost was covered by sales of Jacqueline Kennedy's guidebook to the White House, which by 1965 was in its fourth edition. [149]