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Sliding partitions (hiki-do, 引戸, literally "sliding door") did not come into use until the tail end of the Heian, and the beginning of the Kamakura period. [99] Early sliding doors were heavy; some were made of solid wood. [100] Initially used in expensive mansions, they eventually came to be used in more ordinary houses as well. [99]
The screen-door effect (SDE) is a visual artifact of displays, where the fine lines separating pixels (or subpixels) become visible in the displayed image. This effect can be seen in digital projector images and regular displays under magnification or at close range, but the increases in display resolutions have made this much less significant.
Sudare protect the inhabitants of the building not only from the elements, but also from the eyes of outsiders. They are featured prominently in The Tale of Genji.. During the Heian period (794–1185), a court lady would conceal herself behind a screen when speaking with a man outside her immediate family.
In Japanese architecture, fusuma are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. [1] They typically measure about 90 cm (2 ft 11 in) wide by 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) thick.
The house featured in "Home Alone" has found a buyer, seven months after it was put on the market and just in time for Christmas.. The 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom house located in Winnetka, Illinois was ...
Rollscreen. This is a relatively new hybrid of the full view and ventilating storm doors. The screen is connected at the top of the storm door's window, and when not in use it automatically rolls up on a tensioned dowel in the top of the door. This gives a full-view door when the screen is not in use, and a ventilating door when it is.
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A plate in timber framing is "A piece of Timber upon which some considerable weight is framed...Hence Ground-Plate...Window-plate [obsolete]..." etc. [1] Also called a wall plate, [2] raising plate, [3] or top plate, [4] An exception to the use of the term plate for a large, load-bearing timber in a wall is the bressummer, a timber supporting a wall over a wall opening (see also: lintel).