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GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...
GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
They plotted where lighting effects were in each frame and filmed a Tesla coil emitting electricity against a black background, drawing the emissions to the necessary point in the frame. For the "time bubble", described as a sphere of energy, Fantasy II filmed down the length of a 10-inch (25 cm) plexiglass tube with lights and a pan of dry ice ...
Chigiri-e (ちぎり絵) is a Japanese art form in which the primary technique uses coloured paper that is torn to create images, and may resemble a water colour painting. The technique dates from the Heian period of Japanese history when it was often used in conjunction with calligraphy. Handmade paper is essential for the creation of chigiri ...
The transparent effects of ghosts in this scene is accomplished with the pepper's ghost effect, with animatronics above and below the ride vehicles reflected in mirrors to create the illusion of transparency. Leaving the Ballroom, the vehicles enter the Bride's Boudoir (which replaces the attic scene in the original attraction).
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Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low contrast details and textures. A calotype is a photographic negative produced on uncoated paper. (See Paper negative.) An important feature is that a relatively short exposure in a camera produces a latent image that is subsequently made visible ...
Noburo Ofuji worked primarily with cutout animation, for instance using chiyogami (Japanese colored paper) in 馬具田城の盗賊 (Burglars of "Baghdad" Castle) (1926). [8] Le merle (1958) by Norman McLaren is a combination of (white) cut-outs and (pastel) backgrounds to the music of the French folksong "Mon Merle". [9]