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  2. Steel square - Wikipedia

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    The square has many uses, including laying out common rafters, hip rafters and stairs. [1] It has a diagonal scale, board foot scale and an octagonal scale. On the newer framing squares there are degree conversions for different pitches and fractional equivalents. Framing squares may also be used as winding sticks.

  3. Aspect ratio (image) - Wikipedia

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    Japan's Hi-Vision originally started with a 5:3 (= 15:9) ratio but converted when the international standards group introduced a wider ratio of 5 + 1 ⁄ 3 to 3 (= 16:9). Many digital video cameras have the capability to record in 16:9 (= 4 2 :3 2 ), and 16:9 is the only widescreen aspect ratio natively supported by the DVD standard.

  4. n-dimensional sequential move puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The position of this cell is the extreme foreground of the 4th dimension beyond the position of the viewer's screen. 4-cube 3 4 virtual puzzle, rotated in the 4th dimension to show the colour of the hidden cell. 4-cube 3 4 virtual puzzle, rotated in normal 3D space. 4-cube 3 4 virtual puzzle, scrambled. 4-cube 2 4 virtual puzzle, one cubie is ...

  5. Letterboxing (filming) - Wikipedia

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    The term "SmileBox" is a registered trademark [4] used to describe a type of letter-boxing for Cinerama films, such as on the Blu-ray release of How the West Was Won. The image is produced by using a map projection-like technique to approximate how the picture might look if projected onto a curved Cinerama screen. [5]

  6. Speed square - Wikipedia

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    Common lines made using a speed square include perpendicular cut marks and Angles definition of an angle for roofs, stairways, and decks. The tool uses a 0° reference. This means when a board is squared off the tool reads 0°. The angle derived is actually a complementary angle, for example a 22.5° angle is actually 67.5°. The sum of the ...

  7. Machinist square - Wikipedia

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    A machinist square or engineer's square is the metalworkers' equivalent of a try square. It consists of a steel blade inserted and either welded or pinned into a heavier body at an angle of 90°. Usually a small notch is present at the inside corner of the square.

  8. Fullscreen (aspect ratio) - Wikipedia

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    The aspect ratio of 4:3. Fullscreen (or full screen) refers to the 4:3 (1. 33:1) aspect ratio of early standard television screens and computer monitors. [1] Widescreen ratios started to become more popular in the 1990s and 2000s. Film originally created in the 4:3 aspect ratio does not need to be altered for full-screen release.

  9. Over-the-shoulder shot - Wikipedia

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    This occurs because the image lacks face, upper body or full body classifiers the computer requires to determine a human presence. [30] The continued improvement of this computer technology aims to increase the ‘visual saliency’ of the presence of actors on screen even when they are shown only partially and from behind, as in an OTS shot. [26]