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  2. WebP - Wikipedia

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    WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, [ 8 ] as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April ...

  3. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[ a ] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave ...

  4. Ocean current - Wikipedia

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    Distinctive white lines trace the flow of surface currents around the world. An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences. [ 1 ]

  5. GIF - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.w3.org /Graphics /GIF /spec-gif89a.txt. The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡɪf / GHIF or / dʒɪf / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

  6. 4K resolution - Wikipedia

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    4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels. [ 1 ] Digital television and digital cinematography commonly use several different 4K resolutions. In television and consumer media, 3840 × 2160 (4K UHD) with a 16:9 aspect ratio is the dominant 4K standard, whereas the movie projection industry uses 4096 × ...

  7. Rip current - Wikipedia

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    This flow creates a fast-moving rip current. A rip current (or just rip ) is a specific type of water current that can occur near beaches where waves break. A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore by cutting through the lines of breaking waves, like a river flowing out to sea.

  8. Ekman transport - Wikipedia

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    Ekman transport is part of Ekman motion theory, first investigated in 1902 by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Winds are the main source of energy for ocean circulation, and Ekman transport is a component of wind-driven ocean current. [1] Ekman transport occurs when ocean surface waters are influenced by the friction force acting on them via the wind.

  9. Discord - Wikipedia

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    The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [ 13 ] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [ 14 ] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in ...